The Bronze Object in the Middle Ages

Weinryb, Ittai

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“…188 According to one scholar, this large bronze inscription would have served "as a public proclamation at the entrance to the church," and "allow[ed] the prayer to be recited and to echo." 189 While such an interpretation is hard to substantiate, this invocation for God to surround the civitatem of Corvey and to protect muros eius reflects the broader civic discourse that has been the focus of this study. The gleam of the bronze and the elegant composition of the lettering point to the wealth of Corvey's benefactors and the skillful direction of its abbot.…”

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The City Speaks: Cities, Citizens, and Civic Discourse in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages

Welton

2020

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This article investigates how civic discourse connects the virtue of citizens and the fortunes of cities in a variety of late antique and early medieval sources in the post-Roman west. It reveals how cities assume human qualities through the rhetorical technique of personification and, crucially, the ways in which individuals and communities likewise are described with civic terminology. It also analyzes the ways in which the city and the civic community are made to speak to one another at times of crisis and celebration. By examining a diverse range of sources including epideictic poetry, chronicles, hagiographies, and epigraphic inscriptions, this article addresses multiple modes of late antique and early medieval thought that utilize civic discourse. It first explores how late antique and early medieval authors employed civic discourse in non-urban contexts, including how they conceptualized the interior construction of an individual's mind and soul as a fortified citadel, how they praised ecclesiastical and secular leaders as city structures, and how they extended civic terminology to the preeminently non-urban space of the monastery. The article then examines how personified cities spoke to their citizens and how citizens could join their cities in song through urban procession. Civic encomia and invective further illustrate how medieval authors sought to unify the virtuous conduct of citizens with the ultimate fate of the city's security. The article concludes with a historical and epigraphic case study of two programs of mural construction in ninth-century Rome. Ultimately, this article argues that the repeated and emphatic exhortations to civic virtue provide access to how late antique and early medieval authors sought to intertwine the fate of the city with the conduct of her citizens, in order to persuade their audiences to act in accordance with the precepts of virtue.

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The City Speaks: Cities, Citizens, and Civic Discourse in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages

Welton

2020

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“…As Kessler remarks in his seminal contribution to the study of silver's materiality, Bede the Venerable or St Gregory the Great commented on the agency of the metal, with the Roman Pontiff mentioning in his Moralia in Job that "Sacred speech is mostly compared to silver [...] because they (the objects) shine with the splendour of the virtues of the Father ...". 38 By the time the Fuentes Cross was perhaps being made, the French monk and author Thomas of Perseigne, also quoted by Kessler, related the duality gold/silver to Christ's dual nature, further explaining that refining silver established a par-34 Kessler 2011;Walker-Bynum 2011;Kumler and Lakey 2012;Weinryb 2013Weinryb , 2016Weinryb , 2018 35 Raddatz 1969;Domergue 1990;Blázquez 1996. 36 Santos Yanguas andCartes Hernández 2002-2003.…”

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A silver cross-reliquary and its patroness in twelfth-century rural Asturias

Viejo

2021

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La cruz-relicario de San Salvador de Fuentes es un suntuoso crucifijo hecho principalmente de madera y plata creado a finales del siglo XII para esta importante parroquia del concejo de Villaviciosa, en Asturias. El objeto es propiedad del Metropolitan Museum of Art de Nueva York desde 1917. El objetivo del presente trabajo es el de analizar el simbolismo iconográfico y los usos litúrgicos del crucifijo para luego contextualizar el patronazgo de la comitente del objeto, la noble local Sancha, y la creación de este relicario en la vida religiosa de la zona.

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“…Nowadays, only about thirty medieval doors made of copper alloy remain to be admired in Europe. Unfortunately, many of the doors have been destroyed due to corrosive processes caused by atmospheric agents, and even more so to the reuse of the precious metal of which they are made for other purposes, e.g., the construction of weapons [1][2][3].…”

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Non-Destructive In Situ Investigation of the Study of a Medieval Copper Alloy Door in Canosa di Puglia (Southern Italy)

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This paper reports the analyses carried out on the medieval copper alloy door (1111–1118 AD) of the mausoleum of Boemondo d’Altavilla in Canosa di Puglia (Southern Italy). The studied door is the smallest medieval bronze door extant in Italy and, unlike the other Byzantine doors, was most probably made in Canosa di Puglia and not in Constantinople. Analyses were performed to assess the chemical composition of the alloy patinas using a portable energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence (ED-XRF) instrument designed at the University of Salento. The experimental results suggested that the two door leaves have the same chemical composition, even if they appear different in both style and size. Furthermore, the alloy used for the door is different from the other previously-analyzed Byzantine bronze doors. The obtained results can be used in the future to compare the chemical composition of other Byzantine doors in order to better understand the manufacture of these precious artifacts.

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The Bronze Object in the Middle Ages

Cited by 42 publications

References 305 publications

The City Speaks: Cities, Citizens, and Civic Discourse in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages

The City Speaks: Cities, Citizens, and Civic Discourse in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages

A silver cross-reliquary and its patroness in twelfth-century rural Asturias

Non-Destructive In Situ Investigation of the Study of a Medieval Copper Alloy Door in Canosa di Puglia (Southern Italy)

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