The Epigraphic Presence on the Borghorst Cross (c. 1050)
E. Pallottini
The article focuses on the analysis of epigraphic programme Borghorst Cross, a cross reliquary from Germany (Westphalia) dating to mid eleventh-century. Using Cross as case study, this paper hopes contribute better understanding interplays inscriptions and relics, by exploring how writing, both textual visual device, interacted with monumental context in which relics were placed, contributed its meanings engaged medieval audiences.
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