Staging Holiness: The Case of Hospitaller Rhodes (ca. 1309-1522) / Sofia Zoitou.
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TextSeries: Mediterranean Art Histories ; 3. | Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2021, ISBN: 9789004441286Publisher: Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 2021Description: 1 online resourceContent type: - text
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- online resource
- 9789004444225
- 9789004436855
- Knights of Malta -- Greece -- Rhodes (Island) -- History -- To 1500
- Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages -- Israel -- History
- Religious articles -- Greece -- Rhodes (Island) -- History -- To 1500
- Hospitalers -- Greece -- Rhodes (Island) -- History -- To 1500
- Travelers' writings, European -- History and criticism
- Rhodes (Greece : Island) -- Church history
- 949.5/87 23
- CR4731.G82
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The Hospitallers' institutions -- The Borgo and the area outside the walls -- Our Lady of Phileremos.
"In Staging Holiness. The Case of Hospitaller Rhodes (ca. 1309-1522) Sofia Zoitou offers a study of the history of relic collections, devotional rituals and sites invested with special meaning in Rhodes, during a time when the island became one of the most frequented ports of call for ships carrying pilgrims from Venice to the Holy Land. Scrutinizing late medieval travel reports by pilgrims from all over Europe along with extant historical, archaeological, visual and material evidence, Sofia Zoitou traces the various forms of the Rhodian cultic sites' evolution and perception, ultimately considered as an overall artistic strategy for the staging of the sacred"-- Provided by publisher.
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