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Angels carrying crowns on the images of martyrs. Origin of the iconographic type
2013
Este artículo pretende explicar el origen de las imágenes de los ángeles portando coronas a los mártires, señalando para ello la relación de las coronas con los mártires desde la época paleocristiana, cómo éstas empezaron a ser portadas por ángeles, y los diferentes tipos de coronas que pueden portar según las distintas épocas. This article tries to explain the origin of the images of angels carrying crowns to the martyrs; to this end, it points out the relationship of the crowns with the martyrs from Early Christian period, the way these crowns began to be carried by angels, and the different types of crowns they could carry depending on different periods.
Devotees, A New Ordeal and A Sense of Belonging: Ethnography and Nethnography of Saint Agatha
2012
In 2004 and in 2008, the author conducted ethnographic research in Catania (Southern Italy) on one of the most important religious feasts in honor of Saint Agatha. This chapter relates Agatha's story, which is that of a Sicilian virgin martyr persecuted in the fourth century by a Roman proconsul. At the feast of St. Agatha, the three elements: the extra-ecclesial nature of popular religiosity, the transmission of knowledge through vehicles other than seminaries and other official religious institutions, and the expression of popular religiosity with signs and symbols that transmit the presence of the supernatural in everyday life, can be found. A starting point was to identify and understan…
Nación, emoción y fantasía. La España melodramática de Ayguals de Izco = Nation, Emotion and Fantasy. Ayguals de Izco's Melodramatic Spain
2017
El artículo analiza las novelas por entregas de Wenceslao Ayguals de Izco (1801-1873) desde su dimensión melodramática para señalas de qué modo participaron en la creación de los imaginarios, las narrativas sociales y políticas y la "comunidad emocional" del radicalismo democrático español de mediados del siglo XIX. Posteriormente examino una serie de "fantasías nacionales" que se repiten con insistencia en estas novelas melodramáticas: la unión matrimonial como metáfora de la plenitud nacional, el mártir por la patria y el "ángel de salvación" que socorre a los desfavorecidos. Todas estas fantasías se fundan en la diferencia sexual (al tiempo que la construyen) y permiten la identificación…
Il motivo della “conversione” nel «Gallicanus» di Rosvita di Gandersheim
2017
This paper focuses on the subject of conversion in Hrotsvitha of Gandersheim’s dramatic plays (or «dramatic dialogues») and, chiefly, in the first of them, the Gallicanus. The play is divided in two parts and is entirely founded on hagiograhical sources, regarding some episodes about the conversion of Gallican, emperor Constantine’s commander-in-chief (BHL 3236: Conversio Gallicani principis militiae), and the martyrdom of primicerii John and Paul (BHL 3242: Passio martyrum Iohannis et Pauli). Through a strict analysis of Hrotsvitha’s play’s matter, can be highlighted the different typologies of the conversion’s theme, which involves a spiritual renovation, and the treatment of dramatic plo…
When the Past Makes Saints: The Knights of Malta from Sinners to Martyrs in "Il glorioso trionfo della sacrosanta religion militare di S. Giovanni Gi…
2022
After the fall of Rhodes (1522), the Order of St. John needed to recover its reputation as militia Christi and to redraft its chivalrous ideals within the context of the Catholic Renewal. However, this so-called Religion met this challenge partially and late, although it represented its glorious past as a gallery of saints and martyrs, even if they were not always officially recognised by the Church. This past, since its origin in the Holy Land, casted a shadow of sanctity into the present, confirming this Religion as being semper eadem. Such a representation is found in the book Il glorioso trionfo della sacrosanta religion militare di S. Giovanni Gierosolimitano, published in 1619 in Ital…
Palermo e Santa Lucia siracusana
2014
Nella Sicilia paleocristiana, il culto della martire dioclezianea Loukìa conosce una notevole fortuna nei primi secoli del Cristianesimo, tanto da varcare i confini dell’Isola e da estendersi nel Mediterraneo occidentale e orientale; molto si deve, in questo senso, all’opera pastorale dei pontefici, sin dalla fine del secolo IV. Anche Palermo partecipò della promozione del culto della martire, come attesta la fondazione gregoriana di un cenobio latino dedicato ai santi Agata e Massimo in Lucuscanum; è ben nota, infatti, la connessione tra le due sante Lucia e Agata, testimoniata non solo dai ben noti luoghi dei testi agiografici, ma anche dalle innovazioni nella liturgia introdotte dal papa…
La cúpula de la Basílica de la Virgen de los Desamparados de Valencia (I): el ámbito de la gloria
2007
-Rafael.G-Mahiques@uv.es Estudio iconográfico de los frescos de la cúpula de la Basílica de la Virgen de los Desamparados de Valencia, obra de Antonio Palomino realizada entre 1701 y 1704. Aproximación a un análisis del ámbito de la Gloria celestial. Aquí la Virgen aparece como reina e intercesora ante el Trono de Gracia, en donde, de acuerdo con la tradición iconográfica, se incluye a San Juan Bautista y los arma Christi portados por ángeles. En torno a este núcleo se disponen los bienaventurados, agrupados bajo el criterio de la Letanía Lauretana, en la cual María es invocada con los títulos de Reina de los Ángeles, de los Patriarcas, Profetas, Apóstoles, Mártires, Confesores, Vírgenes y …
Cinéma et culte aux morts : fonction du rituel dans la construction du charisme politique (Espagne, 1936-1939)
2014
En pleine guerre civile espagnole, le 20 novembre 1936, le mythique anarchiste Buenaventura Durruti et le leader fasciste José Antonio Primo de Rivera moururent. Ce texte a pour but de comparer les rituels surgis du culte aux morts entre les deux camps, républicain et nationaliste. Dans le cadre des religions politiques et de l'investissement pathétique, ces deux examples se donnent à voir comme deux modèles héroïques opposés. In the framework of the cult of the Dead that took over the period between the two wars, the rituals organized for the anarchist leader Buenaventura Durruti and the Spanish fascist leader José Antonio Primo de Rivera show how the so-called political religions were at …
Les martyrs protestants du royaume de France face au concile de Trente : affrontement et convergence
2012
Le martyre de Jacquard ou le mythe de l'inventeur héroïque (France, XIXe siècle)
2009
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