IMC 2010: Sessions
Session 721: Travelling Relics: Holy Bodies from Al-Andalus to Christian Iberian Kingdoms
Tuesday 13 July 2010, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | ConTexto: Research Group on Medieval Art & Culture, Universitat de les Illes Balears |
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| Organiser: | M. Raquel Alonso Álvarez, Departamento de Historia del Arte y Musicología, Universidad de Oviedo |
| Moderator/Chair: | Eduardo Carrero Santamaría, Departament de Ciències Històriques, Universitat de les Illes Balears |
| Paper 721-a | Traveller Relics: The Archa santa of the Oviedo Cathedral from Jerusalem to Oviedo (Language: English) Index terms: Anthropology, Architecture - Religious, Art History - Decorative Arts, Religious Life |
| Paper 721-b | The Arca santa of Oviedo: Textual Transmission and the Construction of Sanctity (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - Religious, Historiography - Medieval, Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Mentalities |
| Paper 721-c | Inventions and Translations of Saints in Iberia, 1050-1100: An Overview (Language: English) Index terms: Anthropology, Art History - General, Mentalities, Religious Life |
| Abstract | In the Iberian peninsula, given its multiconfessional character, relics often encountered problems as they travelled from the Muslim south to the Christian north. Between the 9th and 12th centuries, legends concerning the peregrinations of these holy remains began to circulate. Most of these relics travelled from al-Andalus up to Christian territory, becoming centres of powerful cults and important pilgrimages - as in the Cámara Santa of Oviedo, for example. This session deals with these north-south relations between Christianity and Islam, examining how writers of the central Middle Ages produced narratives of how hapless relics, having fallen into the hands of Muslims, eventually made it home to the warm embrace of Christian worship. |