Purifying Body and Soul: Late Antique Combs, their Use and Visual Culture

FOLETTI, Ivan a Gajane ACHVERDJANOVÁ. Purifying Body and Soul: Late Antique Combs, their Use and Visual Culture. In Materiality and Conversion. The Role of Material and Visual Cultures in the Christianization of the Latin West. 2020.

Základní údaje

Originální název

Purifying Body and Soul: Late Antique Combs, their Use and Visual Culture

Autoři

FOLETTI, Ivan a Gajane ACHVERDJANOVÁ

Vydání

Materiality and Conversion. The Role of Material and Visual Cultures in the Christianization of the Latin West, 2020

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Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Prezentace na konferencích

Obor

60401 Arts, Art history

Stát vydavatele

Česká republika

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Organizační jednotka

Filozofická fakulta

Klíčová slova anglicky

Combs; Late Antiquity; Christological narratives; Initiatory Rituals

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Anotace

V originále

Late antique combs are still marginalized objects in art historical research. The purpose of this intervention was to propose a first analysis of combs decorated with Christian narrative scenes. The result of this investigation, based on the function of the combs in previous centuries, on archaeological excavations and on visual comparisons, has allowed us to propose an unprecedented function for these objects. According to all the elements at our disposal, they must have been linked to Christian initiation.