TY  - JOUR
A1  - Rodríguez Viejo, Jesús
T1  - Parading staurothekes in Norman Sicily: relics, community, and the conversion of the other
T2  - Journal of religious history
N2  - This article explores the liturgical functions of cross-shaped staurothekes, reliquaries of the True Cross, in twelfth-century Sicily. These luxurious objects were once at the centre of the devotion of the growing Christian communities on an island undergoing dramatic social changes. This contribution examines the figuration of these crosses and the messages they conveyed to their audiences, focusing on documented processions as displays of public piety. To this end, the contents of two liturgical manuscripts from Palermo, evidence in contemporary pictorial arts and coinage, and the urban layout of the Norman capital will shed light on the reception of the symbol of the cross in the cosmopolitan, yet increasingly intolerant Sicilian kingdom.
Y1  - 2021
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/61453
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-614535
SN  - 1467-9809
VL  - 45
IS  - 2
SP  - 304
EP  - 334
PB  - Wiley-Blackwell
CY  - Oxford
ER  -