IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 1641: Experiencing Death and Resurrection: Late Antique Initiation as a Spiritual and Embodied Frontier, II
Thursday 9 July 2020, 11.15-12.45
| Organisers: | Ivan Foletti, Centre for Early Medieval Studies, Masarykova univerzita, Brno Adrien Palladino, Centre for Early Medieval Studies / Department of Art History Masarykova univerzita Brno |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Francesca Dell'Acqua, Dipartimento di Scienze del Patrimonio Culturale, Università degli Studi di Salerno |
| Paper 1641-a | Purifying Body and Soul: Combing as Ritual and Apotropaic Act (Language: English) Index terms: Anthropology, Archaeology - Artefacts, Art History - General, Liturgy |
| Paper 1641-b | Place of Radical Transformation: Rebirth, Space, and Limits (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - Religious, Art History - General, Liturgy, Religious Life |
| Paper 1641-c | 'Accessing the Sacred': Liminal Spaces of Devotion in Georgian Church Architecture, 5th-11th Centuries (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - Religious, Art History - General, Liturgy, Religious Life |
| Abstract | Symbolic death and rebirth into the new faith are one of the essential components within the process of conversion, concretised for Christians in Late Antiquity during initiation and baptismal ritual, a 'liminal' rite of passage. Nurturing this crossing of 'limes' between old and new self, outside world and community, and materialising ritual death and rebirth, was the role of material culture. This session would like to be an investigation precisely of this culture, in dialogue between material/artistic culture, rituals, and the world of ideas. |