In: Bethlehem. A Sociocultural History, 2020, p. 25-40
The paper is a post-print version of an article originally published in Mitri Raheb (ed.), "Bethlehem. A Sociocultural History", Bethlehem: Diyar Publishers, 2020, p. 25-40, though without the illustrations presented here. It analyses the dynamics by which the kinetic dimension of pilgrimage contributed to invest the landscape associated with the way leading from Jerusalem to Bethlehem with...
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In: The Basilica of Saint John Lateran to 1600, 2020, p. 345-378
The “Holy Heads” of Peter and Paul, attested in the 11th century within a secondary altar of the Laurentius-Oratory in the Patriarchium Lateranense and later on inside the main altar of the Sancta Sanctorum, increased their status exponentially after having been transferred by Pope Urban V (1368-70) into the Lateran Basilica. Embedded in two huge, lavishly decorated anthropomorphic...
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In: Beiträge zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache und Literatur, 2015, vol. 137, no. 2, p. 221-239
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In: Le Vie della Misericordia, 2017, p. 81-106
The present paper discusses materials collected and analysed in the frame of a research project coordinated by Michele Bacci at Fribourg University and supported by the Swiss National Found. It focuses on the spread of Marian cultic phenomena along the maritime routes between Venice and the Holy Land, which corresponded to the major commercial itineraries among territories mainly belonging to the...
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In: Surveys in Geophysics, 2012, vol. 33, no. 1, p. 169-209
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In: Mobile Eyes. Peripatetisches Sehen in den Bildkulturen der Vormoderne, 2013, p. 175-197
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In: Immagine e scrittura. Presenza greca a Messina dal Medioevo all’età moderna/Image and Scripture. Greek Presence in Messina from the Middle Ages to Modernity [exhibition catalogue, Messina, Museo regionale “Maria Accascina”, 24 March-26 May 2013, 2013, p. 201-216
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In: Αφιέρωμα στον ακαδημαϊκό Παναγιώτη Λ. Βοκοτόπουλο. Αρχιτεκτονική – Γλυπτική – Μικροτεχνία – Ποικίλα – Ψηφιδωτά – Χειρόγραφα – Τοιχογραφίες – Εικόνες, 2015, p. 567-576
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In: Convivium : exchanges and interactions in the arts of medieval Europe, Byzantium, and the Mediterranean, 2015, vol. 2, no. 2, p. 36-59
Since 2010 the Nativity Church in Bethlehem underwent a number of significant restoration works, including the refurbishing of the wooden roof, the consolidation of the Armenian door, and, starting from March 2015, the cleaning and consolidation of the mosaic surfaces. This recent work lead to important discoveries, including the recovery of the figure of an angel which had been hidden under the...
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In: Convivium : exchanges and interactions in the arts of medieval Europe, Byzantium, and the Mediterranean, 2015, vol. 2, no. 1, p. 126-147
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