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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"cult images"”.
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Paul and the Politics of Idolatry: Ancient Mediterranean Cult Images and Iconic Ritual in the Letters of Paul
… of ancient Mediterranean religion involving cult images and iconic ritual. The focus of this thesis lies most broadly in the political and ethnic dynamics of Paul's ritual demand that gentiles renounce the iconic cult of their own ancestral customs (so-called 'idolatry'), turning from images …
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Touching the Gods: physical interaction with cult statues in the Roman world
„Touching the Gods: physical interaction with cult statues in the Roman world‟ explores different forms of physical interaction with cult statues in the many cults and beliefs evident across the Roman world, and proposes wide-ranging implications of this for the understanding of Roman religions and …
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The Fortunes of a King: Images of Edward the Confessor in 12th to 14th Century England
… on the political and devotional functions of his images in twelfth to fourteenth century England. The images are not concerned with the historical Anglo-Saxon King, but rather depict an idealized and simplified version of Edward. The discrepancies between Edward, the Anglo-Saxon monarch, and his …
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Pilgrimage and Italian Renaissance Art: The Artistic Influence of the Cult of the Holy Girdle in Prato
The artistic and cultural importance of pilgrimage has been treated peripherally in Italian Renaissance scholarship. The perception of pilgrimage as a fervent and backward religious practice does not generally concur with the understanding of the Italian Renaissance as a period of intellectual …