The Cult of the Martyrs' Blood between the Middle Ages and the Modern Age: The Case of Cimitile
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https://doi.org/10.6093/1593-2214/9557Keywords:
Middle Ages, Cimitile, Christian and Medieval Archeology, Martyrs’ Blood, RelicsAbstract
The study highlights little-known aspects of the martyrial sanctuary of Cimitile, focusing in particular on the relationship between the works commissioned between the end of the 9th century and the beginning of the 10th century by the bishop of Nola Leo III, and some aspects of the cult which, albeit with some significant changes, survived up to the Modern Age. By linking the early attestations of the cult paid to the Martyrs’ blood in Naples since the end of the 4th century to the later late medieval testimonies and to the Cimitile tradition, as it emerges against the background of Counter-Reformation apologetics, I examine the less documented early medieval phase of the sanctuary.
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