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Date(s) - 19 May 2017
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Location
Room 5114, CUNY Graduate Center
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Friday, May 19, 7 p.m.,
History Lounge (Room 5114), CUNY Graduate Center(365 Fifth Ave.)
Dr. Brad Hostetler
Jane and Morgan Whitney Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Medieval Art and the Cloisters, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Reliquaries in Medieval Byzantium: Forms and Functions
In recent years, there has been a great deal of scholarly interest in reliquaries. While much of this work has focused on reliquaries of the medieval Latin West, those of the Byzantine Greek East are still relatively unknown. What did Byzantine reliquaries look like, and what sorts of ‘things’ did they contain? Through an examination of extant objects as well as those documented only in textual sources, this presentation outlines some of the main types of reliquaries from the Middle Byzantine period (843–1204), and the ways in which they were used.