The Enkolpion: Object, Agency, Self

Drpić, Ivan

doi:10.1086/698842

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“…In a recent essay, Ivan Drpić has explored the ways in which the encolpion, through its intimate rapport with the body of its owner, might be in some part constitutive of that owner's reflexive sense of self (Drpić 2018). Drpić surveys references to encolpia in literary texts of the 11th through 15th centuries, as well as epigrams inscribed upon surviving encolpia.…”

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Reliquary crosses from Middle Byzantine Aphrodisias: intimacy and archaeology

Jeffery

2023

Anatol. Stud.

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Worn constantly on the chest, reliquary crosses were intimately implicated in the lives of medieval people. Previous studies of such crosses have tended to consider them as tools through which people achieved specific ends, either as prophylactics against disease or as signifiers of hierarchical status. An alternative and complementary interpretation would emphasise intimacy: the prolonged rapport of particular crosses with particular bodies. This paper assembles and publishes 14 reliquary crosses from Aphrodisias in Caria, presented with commentary in an appendix. The body of the article addresses the archaeological contexts in which these crosses were found and explores the funerary use of reliquary crosses across Middle Byzantine Asia Minor from this novel perspective.

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“…In this respect, I build upon incisive essays by Maria Parani (2007) and Ivan Drpić (2018). Parani's contribution, addressing 'The personal lives of objects in medieval Byzantium', analyses legal documents in order to explore how medieval writers represented affective bonds between themselves and particular objects.…”

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Reliquary crosses from Middle Byzantine Aphrodisias: intimacy and archaeology

Jeffery

2023

Anatol. Stud.

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Manuel I Komnenos and the Stone of Unction

Drpić¹

2019

Byz. Mod. Greek stud.

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For John DuffyThis article explores the fate of the Stone of Unction — the marble slab upon which, according to tradition, the dead body of Christ had been anointed for burial — in twelfth-century Byzantium. Focusing upon the Stone's association with Manuel I Komnenos, the article examines the imperial handling of this Passion relic in relation to broader trends in the devotional culture of the contemporary Byzantine élite. The special bond between the emperor and the relic, it is argued, should be seen as a manifestation of the pervasive desire, much in evidence during the Komnenian era, to personalise and even privatise the sacred.

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Art, Relics, and the Senses in the Cult of Saint Demetrios of Thessaloniki

Taronas

2023

Gesta

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The Enkolpion: Object, Agency, Self

Cited by 3 publications

References 17 publications

Reliquary crosses from Middle Byzantine Aphrodisias: intimacy and archaeology

Reliquary crosses from Middle Byzantine Aphrodisias: intimacy and archaeology

Manuel I Komnenos and the Stone of Unction

Art, Relics, and the Senses in the Cult of Saint Demetrios of Thessaloniki

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