ARH 211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Reliquary
Document Summary
The materiality of reliquaries, creation of social relations, particular issues of enclosure and beauty, and potential visibility. Object allows little or no insight into the meaning or the past. Cross shaped emerald enclosed on the top part. Relic carries the virtues of a saint or christ the power of the holy person. Early texts mentioned as a form of transporting the sacred substances of relics authenticity. Relics were exchanged as gifts ties of friendship. Intercession essential part, allowed their functioning as part of social relations. Relic a bit of a body or object that has touched a holy person (physical contact)(bits of body or cloth) Reliquary container that holds the relics: what modes of vision were enabled by reliquaries, according to paulinus of nola and. Gregory the great? (303-304) how was the relic and or/reliquary hidden ? (305-306) Vision of cross genuinely powerful and effective means of access to the divine.
