Publication details
Le voir et le toucher : les objets dans l’initiation tardoantique
| Title in English | Seeing and Touching: Objects in the Late Antique Initiation |
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| Year of publication | 2020 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | Studies of the material history of Christian initiation have traditionally been linked to the relationship between ritual, space and images. Considering the paucity of preserved written sources, however, a fundamental part of this process has been effectively overlooked by research. These are mobile objects, perhaps decorated, which must have necessarily participated in the ritual. By crossing visual data with written documents from the 4th to 6th centuries, the present intervention would therefore like to present a certain number of objects plausibely linked to such rituals. Covered by images, these objects first and foremost become witnesses of a practice in which the interaction between ritual and visual culture seems fundamental. In addition, by their plastic nature through they had to be touched, giving the rituals a truly tangible nature. |