Shrines and relics: Pathways to the holy land in the dioceses of Astorga and Leon (4th to 12th century)
[EN] This chapter overviews liturgical chronicle, written testimonies, and material evidence of microarchitectural recreations of Christian loca sancta in Jerusalem in the dioceses of León and Astorga over eight centuries, the Early Middle Ages to the Romanesque period. We consider which testimonies...
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| Format: | book part |
| Publication Date: | 2022 |
| Country: | España |
| Institution: | Universidad de León |
| Repository: | BULERIA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de León |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:buleria.unileon.es:10612/23652 |
| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10612/23652 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | Arte Historia Medieval Shrines Egeria Toribio Valerio del Bierzo Martino de León Infanta Sancha Ida de Bolonia Diócesis de León Diócesis de Astorga Santo Martino Relic Holy Land Astorga Dioceses of Astorga Dioceses of León Bishop Osmundus Ida of Boulougne Pilgrim Martino 5506.02 Historia del Arte 5504.03 Historia Medieval |
| Summary: | [EN] This chapter overviews liturgical chronicle, written testimonies, and material evidence of microarchitectural recreations of Christian loca sancta in Jerusalem in the dioceses of León and Astorga over eight centuries, the Early Middle Ages to the Romanesque period. We consider which testimonies and sacred materials were preserved in the face of the expansion of Islam as far as the Cantabrian mountains around 720. In fact, making Jerusalem present – in time and space – through reliquaries and shrines, and because of the testimonies of new pilgrims and the invocation of old travellers, was one of the vectors of the rehabilitation of Christianity in the dioceses of León and Astorga from the second half of the 9th century onwards. Indeed, the presbyter Jacinto (mid- 10th century) from the city of León, capital of the Kingdom and episcopal see, wrote his Itinerarium to the Holy Land. According to his account, he visited the Basilica of the Nativity in Bethlehem and the Holy Sepulcher. |
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