Praying with the senses: Examples of icon devotion and the sensory experience in medieval and early modern Balkans
This paper discusses sensory experience in the practice of devotion of two highly venerated icons in medieval and Early Modern Balkans: the mosaic icon of the Virgin Hodegetria from the monastery of Chilandar and the icon of Gospa of Škrpjela (Our Lady of the Reef) from the Bay of Kotor. Al...
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| Format: | Article |
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Faculty of Philosophy, Belgrade
2015-01-01
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| Series: | Zograf |
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| Online Access: | http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0350-1361/2015/0350-13611539057B.pdf |
| Summary: | This paper discusses sensory experience in the practice of devotion of two
highly venerated icons in medieval and Early Modern Balkans: the mosaic icon
of the Virgin Hodegetria from the monastery of Chilandar and the icon of
Gospa of Škrpjela (Our Lady of the Reef) from the Bay of Kotor. Although part
of two different, albeit historically intertwined and perpetually connected
cultural and liturgical spheres, icon veneration in both the Orthodox and the
Catholic community of the broader Mediterranean world and the Balkans in
medieval and Early Modern times shares the same source. It relies on the
traditional Byzantine manner of icon veneration. This is particularly true of
highly venerated and often miracle working images of the Mother of God,
identity markers of political, social and religious entities, objects of
private devotion as well as performative objects around which are centered
public rituals of liturgical processions and ephemeral spectacles. |
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| ISSN: | 0350-1361 2406-0755 |