Michele Bacci, "On the Making of Holy Places Along the Sea Routes of the Eastern Mediterranean"

Michele Bacci, Chair of Medieval Art History in the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, discusses both site-relics (such as stones from the holy sites) and body-parts of saints worshipped by Holy Land pilgrims, and the visual and architectural strategies by which all such new sites were established and made attractive to the pilgrims’ eyes. Part of the Seminar in Comparative Medieval Material Culture (China, Islam, Europe) at the Bard Graduate Center in NYC.

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