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Purifying the Body and the Soul: “minor” arts and the rite of Baptism: Some reflections and methodological problems

PALLADINO, Adrien

Basic information

Original name

Purifying the Body and the Soul: “minor” arts and the rite of Baptism: Some reflections and methodological problems

Edition

Experiencing Death and Resurrection. Late Antique Initiation as a Spiritual and Embodied Frontier at the International Medieval Congress - University of Leeds 2020, 2020

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Prezentace na konferencích

Field of Study

60401 Arts, Art history

Country of publisher

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Organization unit

Faculty of Arts

Keywords in English

Baptism; Initiation; Late Antiquity; Minor Arts; Ivory; Liturgy; Objects
Změněno: 22/5/2024 16:03, Alžběta Filipová, M.A., Ph.D.

Abstract

V originále

Purification, in the frame of baptism, is seen as a passage, a crossing of “borders” – as the theme of this year’s IMC congress has it. It is a passage to a new status, both in front of the community and god. This passage is often mirrored, as was already highlighted many times, in the metaphorical terms of a ritualized death and rebirth. It is also important to keep in mind the many links entertained between these rituals and the notion of sacrifice: for the participants to rituals, in order to encounter the divine, they must present themselves as “living sacrifices”, purified and holy. Thus, we might ask ourselves how also this notion of sacrifice could be represented on mobile objects related to the one represented by baptism itself. This intervention will focus specifically on one type of object which could mirror, both through its iconography, but also material dimensions and shape, the notions described above: Late Antique ivory pyxides.

Links

MUNI/H/1402/2016, interní kód MU
Name: Transforming the Spaces and the Minds. Materiality, Performativity and Perception in the Late Antique (4th–6th century) Baptismal Zones (Acronym: TSP)
Investor: Masaryk University, Individual High risk/high gain projects