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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| description | 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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| spelling | doaj.art-6d572587b11047179ba4dc22a73f1d142022-12-21T23:22:26ZengInstitute for Balkan Studies SASABalcanica0350-76532406-08012017-01-01201748335310.2298/BALC1748033M0350-76531748033MThe virgin of Savina identity and multiculturalismMatić Marina0nemaThe 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).http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0350-7653/2017/0350-76531748033M.pdfGulf of Kotor (Boka Kotorska/Bocche di Cattaro)Virgin of SavinaCretan Schoolex-votopalladiummulticulturalismidentity |
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| title | The virgin of Savina identity and multiculturalism |
| title_full | The virgin of Savina identity and multiculturalism |
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| title_short | The virgin of Savina identity and multiculturalism |
| title_sort | virgin of savina identity and multiculturalism |
| topic | Gulf of Kotor (Boka Kotorska/Bocche di Cattaro) Virgin of Savina Cretan School ex-voto palladium multiculturalism identity |
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