Parading Staurothekes in Norman Sicily: Relics, Community, and the Conversion of the Other <sup>†</sup>
Jesús Rodríguez Viejo
This article explores the liturgical functions of cross‐shaped staurothekes, reliquaries True Cross, in twelfth‐century Sicily. These luxurious objects were once at centre devotion growing Christian communities on an island undergoing dramatic social changes. contribution examines figuration these crosses and messages they conveyed to their audiences, focusing documented processions as displays public piety. To this end, contents two manuscripts from Palermo, evidence contemporary pictorial arts coinage, urban layout Norman capital will shed light reception symbol cross cosmopolitan, yet increasingly intolerant Sicilian kingdom.
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