TY  - BOOK
AU  - Zoitou,Sofia
TI  - Staging Holiness: The Case of Hospitaller Rhodes (ca. 1309-1522)
T2  - Mediterranean Art Histories
SN  - 9789004444225
AV  - CR4731.G82 
U1  - 949.5/87 23
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Leiden; , Boston
PB  - BRILL, 
KW  - Knights of Malta
KW  - Greece
KW  - Rhodes (Island)
KW  - History
KW  - To 1500
KW  - Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages
KW  - Israel
KW  - Religious articles
KW  - Hospitalers
KW  - Travelers' writings, European
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Rhodes (Greece : Island)
KW  - Church history
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; The Hospitallers' institutions -- The Borgo and the area outside the walls -- Our Lady of Phileremos
N2  - "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"--
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004444225
ER  -