The Shroud at Court : : History, Usages, Places and Images of a Dynastic Relic /

The Shroud at Court : : History, Usages, Places and Images of a Dynastic Relic / / Paolo Cozzo, Andrea Merlotti, Andrea Nicolotti.

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The Shroud at the Court analyses, through various essays characterized by a multidisciplinary and diachronic perspective, the strict ties created between the Shroud and the Savoy court from the fifteenth to twentieth centuries. Presented as proof of the divine legitimacy of Savoy lineage, the Shroud...

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TeilnehmendeR:
Cozzo, Paolo,
Merlotti, Andrea,
Nicolotti, Andrea,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden,, Boston : : BRILL,, 2019.
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Art and Material Culture in Medieval and Renaissance Europe 13.
Physical Description:1 online resource (389 pages).
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright Page
  • Illustrations
  • Abbreviations
  • Contributors
  • 1 Introduction 1 / Paolo Cozzo , Andrea Merlotti and Andrea Nicolotti
  • 2 Présentation : Le Saint Suaire entre pratiques dévotionnelles et stratégies politiques 6 / Bernard Dompnier
  • 3 The Acquisition of the Shroud by the House of Savoy: Documentary Evidence 20 / Andrea Nicolotti
  • 4 Le Saint Suaire, les Savoie et Chambéry (1453-1515) 57 / Laurent Ripart
  • 5 Centre dynastique, religiosité et mémoire urbaine : Chambéry et le Saint Suaire du XVIe au XVIIIe siècle 75 / Frédéric Meyer
  • 6 The First Exhibitions of the Shroud in Piedmont and Yolande of Valois, Duchess of Savoy 89 / Laura Gaffuri
  • 7 A Relic to See and Touch: the Sensory Dimension of the Shroud in Court (XVI-XX Centuries) 104 / Paolo Cozzo
  • 8 The Holy Shroud between the Court of Savoy and the City of Turin: The Ostensions from the Seventeenth to Nineteenth Century (1630-1831) 124 / Andrea Merlotti
  • 9 Turin and the Holy Shroud: Supplies of Wheat and Management of Public Order during the Ostensions (XVII-XVIII Centuries) 167 / Davide De Franco
  • 10 Sindonic Panegyrics in the 17th Century 185 / Luisella Giachino
  • 11 “Accesi di devoto affetto verso questa meravigliosa reliquia”: The Roman Archconfraternity of the Most Holy Shroud’s Devotional Choices and Strategies of Cult Promotion (17th-18th Centuries) 214 / Alessandro Serra
  • 12 The Shroud in the Ceremonial Policy of the House of Savoy between the End of the 16th Century and the 18th Century 238 / Franca Varallo
  • 13 “Se bene è nella città di Torino, nondimeno in qualche parte ne gode Roma”: Some Considerations on the (Mis)Fortune of Savoyard Iconography in Papal Rome 272 / Paola Caretta
  • 14 The Old Piedmont becomes the New Italy: the Ostensions for the Nuptials of the Crown Princes Vittorio Emanuele and Umberto (1842-1868) 297 / Pierangelo Gentile
  • 15 Copies of the Holy Shroud for the Court of King Philip II of Spain (1527-1598) 313 / Almudena Pérez de Tudela Gabaldón
  • 16 Museum versus Chapel of the Holy Shroud. The Octagonal Hall of the Palace of Victor Amadeus I, Duke of Savoy and King of Cyprus 335 / Paolo Cornaglia
  • Back Matter
  • Select Bibliography
  • Index of Names.

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