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  1. Hiding and Revealing: Text and Image in Venantius Fortunatus’s Carmina
    Author: Derhard-Lesieur, Gina
    Published: 2023

    In his carmina, Venantius Fortunatus (sixth century) has left us three figurate poems that depict the cross as an image, while its verses describe the cross textually. He is thus an author who completely detaches figurate poems from the pagan... more

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    In his carmina, Venantius Fortunatus (sixth century) has left us three figurate poems that depict the cross as an image, while its verses describe the cross textually. He is thus an author who completely detaches figurate poems from the pagan tradition and inscribes them in the Christian one. The aim of this essay is to examine these poems from a pictorialist perspective. To this end, after a brief presentation of all three poems, they are considered, firstly, as ekphraseis that draw on a three-step representation: The figure depicts a cross that points to transcendence, the verses describe it, and they have the potential to evoke an additional mental image in the reader. Secondly, I examine what image and text, and thus the figurate poems as intermedial products, gain through the respective other medium. This results, thirdly, in an analysis of the figurate poems within the categories of iconism, aniconism, and anti-iconism.

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Article (journal)
    Format: Online
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    Parent title: Enthalten in: Entangled Religions; Bochum : Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 2014; 14(2023,5), Absatz 1-61; Online-Ressource

    Subjects: Christianity; Gaul; Late Antiquity; Venantius Fortunatus; cross; iconotexts; images; poems
  2. Victor Turner's Theory of Symbols
    The Symbolism of a Religious Site and Object in a Rural Environment in Eastern Slovakia
    Author: Uhrin, Michal
    Published: 2020

    This article is dedicated to the symbolism of a religious site (the church) and a religious object (the cross) in Christianity in a concrete locality and community. The study was based on Victor Turner's theory of rituals and symbols. I used Turner's... more

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    This article is dedicated to the symbolism of a religious site (the church) and a religious object (the cross) in Christianity in a concrete locality and community. The study was based on Victor Turner's theory of rituals and symbols. I used Turner's definitions and classifications of symbols as well as his theses related to rituals. My aim was to demonstrate that the church and the cross can be categorised as dominant symbols in Christianity, even though they bear distinct characteristics of dominant symbols. The data analysed in the present text were collected by the ethnographic interview and participant observation methods during ethnographic field research. The research was conducted in eastern Slovakia, in a village in which the majority of residents are affiliated with the Greek Catholic faith. Building on the analysis of ethnographic data, I will demonstrate the strengths and weaknesses of Turner's theory of symbols. During the analysis, I will suggest possible answers, stemming mainly from cognitive anthropology, for certain questions left unanswered by Turner.

     
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    Parent title: Enthalten in: Religion and society in Central and Eastern Europe; Morgantown, W Va. : WVU, 2005; 13(2020), 1, Seite 21-41; Online-Ressource

    Subjects: symbol; ritual; church; cross; ethnography