La dévotion privée et l'art à l'époque carolingienne : le cas de Sainte-Maure de Troyes
Albert Castes
Prudence de Troyes in his Sermo vita et morte gloriosae virginis Maurae mentions three pictures that were the cathedral of Troyes. Local sources, more posterior, give many precisions on one them : A large crucifix, out wood covered with a silver foil, nails and carrying colobium royal crown. sedes sapientiae majesty holding sceptre, probably situated apse, completed whole. The text links these to devotion local virgin Saviour from VIth Mathie vision. In background we perceive presence carolingian intellectuals' big themes cult Saviour, predestination.
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