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Viewing Heaven: Rock Crystal, Reliquaries, And Transparency In Fourteenth-Century Aachen, Claire Kilgore
Viewing Heaven: Rock Crystal, Reliquaries, And Transparency In Fourteenth-Century Aachen, Claire Kilgore
School of Art, Art History, and Design: Theses and Student Creative Work
This thesis examines reliquaries and objects associated with medieval Christian practice in fourteenth-century Aachen. The city's cathedral and treasury contain prestigious relics, reliquaries, and liturgical items, aided by its status as the Holy Roman Empire's coronation church. During the reign of Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV (r. 1349-1378), reliquaries, pilgrimage, and architecture reflect late medieval interests in vision, optics, and transparency. Two mid-fourteenth century reliquaries from the Aachen Cathedral Treasury, the Reliquary of Charlemagne and the Three-Steepled Reliquary, display relics through rock crystal windows, in contrast to the obscuring characteristics of earlier reliquaries. Not only do the two reliquaries visually …
Charles Iv: An Endless Search For Tongues And Toes To Enrich His Empire, Shanna Goodwin
Charles Iv: An Endless Search For Tongues And Toes To Enrich His Empire, Shanna Goodwin
Phi Kappa Phi Research Symposium (2012-2016)
Excerpt: "This paper will discuss why Charles IV used reliquaries to enrich his empire and will also explain their importance to the king himself."
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 24, No. 2, Hilda Adam Kring, Beulah S. Hostetler, Francis J. Puig, Monroe H. Fabian, Louis Winkler, Pamela James
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 24, No. 2, Hilda Adam Kring, Beulah S. Hostetler, Francis J. Puig, Monroe H. Fabian, Louis Winkler, Pamela James
Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine
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