Université de Fribourg

Local Cults and their Integration into Bethlehem's Sacred Landscape in the Late Medieval and Modern Periods

Bacci, Michele

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...

Université de Fribourg

La Madonna della Misericordia individuale

Bacci, Michele

In: Acta ad archaeologiam et artium historiam pertinentia, 2008, vol. 21, p. 171-195

Université de Fribourg

Portolano sacro. Santuari e immagini sacre lungo le rotte di navigazione del Mediterraneo tra tardo Medioevo e prima età moderna

Bacci, Michele

In: The Miraculous Image in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, 2004, p. 223-248

This paper investigates an hitherto neglected aspect of late Medieval devotion, which was connected with the peculiar expressions of piety of the seepeople. The coast lines of the late Medieval Mediterranean were dotted with a large number of shrines which corresponded to safe places and repairs along the navigation routes. A specific litany was worked out in order to invoke the appearance of...