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Text, Image, and the “Visionary Body” in Early Byzantine Hagiography: Incubation and the Rise of the Christian Image Cult

open access: closedJournal of Late Antiquity, 2011
This study reasserts the importance of images for the Christian saints’ cult during the sixth and seventh centuries, and draws attention to the abundant extant pilgrims’ eulogiai that that have been largely overlooked heretofore. In particular, it highlights the existence of a fiercely contested debate in early Byzantium about the visibility of the
Matthew J. Dal Santo
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