Marco Petoletti – Angelo Piacentini (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan) Abstract Bonifacio da Verona was active in the second half of the 13th century. Having composed a short poem in honour of the Virgin and St Anne, Annayde (which is preserved in a magnificent codex, Paris, Bibl. nationale de France, lat. 8114) dedicated to…
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Images of the Veronica in Religious Books of the Laity: Their Provenance and Meaning
Hanneke Van Asperen (Nijmegen) Abstract Manuscripts for lay devotion, often books of hours, sometimes contain small images of the Veronica that were added to the book after its production, probably by the book owner at the time. Attachment to the book did not always guarantee survival of the fragile pictures. Occasionally, the images are still…
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Chiara Di Fruscia (Rome) Abstract Starting with Pope Innocent III and throughout the 15th century, Catholic popes have enriched the symbolism related to the Holy Face of Christ by associating themselves to the expression vicarius-Christi. Such a conception clearly entails all sorts of ideological and political implications, therefore, we cannot consider the Veronica as the…
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Veronicae of Christ and the Virgin in the Kingdom of Aragon in the Middle Ages. A Survey of their Diffusion and Liturgical Context
Marc Sureda i Jubany (Museu Episcopal de Vic) Abstract As is well known, under the reign of Martin I of Aragon (“the Ecclesiastic” or “the Human”, 1396-1410) icon-like images of the Virgin, in some cases accompanied by others of the Holy Face of Christ, came to be particularly venerated in several places of the Kingdom…
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“Sui pretiossisimi vultus Imago”: Veronica and Grants of Indulgences in the 13th and early 14th centuries
Étienne Doublier (Wuppertal) Abstract Both the “true icon” and “pardons” began to be extremely popoular especially during the thirteenth century. My paper questions the possible connection between the two phenomena and portrays the history of papal and episcopal indulgences connected with the veneration of Veronica in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Following topics will be…
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Kathryn Rudy (University of St Andrews and Getty Research Institute) In the fifteenth century the Face of Christ found an enthusiastic devotee at the Burgundian court. Philip the Good (1396-1467) owned his grandfather’s immense prayerbook, known as the Grandes Heures. His grandfather, Philip the Bold (1342-1404), had used the manuscript heavily. All of the inherited…
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SESSION 1 THE ORIGINS OF THE FAME OF THE ROMAN VERONICA Amanda Murphy Conference Convenor Welcome Herbert L. Kessler Introduction: The Literary Warp and Artistic Weft of Veronica’s Cloth Zbigniew Izydorczyk The Cura Sanitatis Tiberii according to Ernst von Dobschütz Barry Windeatt ‘True Image’? Versions of the Veronica in Medieval England Federico Gallo De sacrosanto sudario…
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