The Power of the Cross and Cruciform Devices in the Carolingian World
Ildar H. Garipzanov
Abstract This chapter shows the unquestionable role of sign cross as primary divine authority in Carolingian material and manuscript culture, a partly achieved at expense diminishing symbolic importance late antique christograms. It also analyses appearance new cruciform devices ninth century well adaptation early Byzantine tradition invocational monograms exemplified Bible San Paolo fuori le mura several other religious manuscripts. The final section examines some carmina figurata and, most importantly, Hrabanus Maurus’ In honorem sanctae crucis, window into graphicacy paramount its ultimate organizing principle.
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