Hagiography As An Instrument For Political Claims In Carolingian Northern Italy: The Saint Syrus Dossier (BHL 7976 And 7978)
Giorgia Vocino
Repositories of the sacred, relics were important symbolic objects throughout Middle Ages, considered arbiters peace, stability and prosperity by communities that possessed them. The St Syrus, first bishop Pavia, transferred Bishop Donumdei probably in second quarter ninth century. was only figure civil authority played anything like a leading role translation, at least according to Translatio sancti Syri . closely reflects cultural intellectual milieu half century, being engaged struggle against iconoclastic dissent towards cult saints their relics. It reveals Pavia also involved turmoil this debate. Similar hagiographic reports not written Italian monasteries, unlike rest Empire where texts created monastic scriptoria predominant. Keywords: monasteries; Ages; Pavia; Syrus;
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