The virgin of Savina identity and multiculturalism
The sixteenth-century miracle-working icon of the Virgin Glykophilousa in the Serbian Orthodox monastery of Savina, modern Montenegro, has been the focus of cult and devotions for centuries. A compelling visual presence, it played multiple roles: liturgical, social, legal, and cultic. In ea...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Institute for Balkan Studies SASA
2017-01-01
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| Series: | Balcanica |
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| Online Access: | http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0350-7653/2017/0350-76531748033M.pdf |
| Summary: | The sixteenth-century miracle-working icon of the Virgin Glykophilousa in the
Serbian Orthodox monastery of Savina, modern Montenegro, has been the focus
of cult and devotions for centuries. A compelling visual presence, it played
multiple roles: liturgical, social, legal, and cultic. In each of its
roles, it provided support for ethnic and religious identity, being above
all a palladium both for believers as individuals and for the Orthodox
Christian community as a whole in the complex multicultural and
multiconfessional contexts of foreign Venetian rule in the
eighteenth-century Gulf of Kotor (Boka Kotorska/Bocche di Cattaro). |
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| ISSN: | 0350-7653 2406-0801 |