Hiding and Revealing: Text and Image in Venantius Fortunatus’s Carmina
In his carmina, Venantius Fortunatus (sixth century) has left us three figurate poems that depict the cross as an image, while its verses describe the cross textually. He is thus an author who completely detaches figurate poems from the pagan tradition and inscribes them in the Christian one. The ai...
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| Language: | English |
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Ruhr-Universität Bochum
2023
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Entangled Religions
Year: 2023, Volume: 14, Issue: 5 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Venantius, Fortunatus 530-600, Carmina
/ Visual poetry
/ Figurative language
/ Cross
/ Christian art
/ Iconography
/ Ekphrasis
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| RelBib Classification: | CE Christian art KAD Church history 500-900; early Middle Ages |
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B Venantius Fortunatus B iconotexts B Cross B Images B Poems B Christianity B Late Antiquity |
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