Maniura, Robert (2025) Image, text, performance: articulating the miraculous in early Sixteenth-Century Prato. In: Gerrits, R. and Liberman, A. (eds.) Reproducing Miracles: On Media and the Miraculous in Early Modern Europe. Poesis 9. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. ISBN 9783770568987. (In Press)
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Abstract
This article uses the writings of a Prato lawyer, Giuliano Guizzelmi (1446-1518), to explore the ways in which the miraculous was made manifest in his community through verbalisation, image-making and ritual performance. His miracle book of the local shrine of Santa Maria delle Carceri includes textual representations of miracles, but it also points beyond itself to a rich network of behaviour involving the mobilisation of artefacts. Devotees travelled to Prato to give thanks for divine aid, and their journeys involved heightened performances and could culminate in elaborate formal processions. Many donated material offerings including images. The article argues that these artefacts and performances should be understood not only as representations of miracles but also as central to the construction of the miraculous.
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| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Historical Studies |
| Depositing User: | Robert Maniura |
| Date Deposited: | 10 Jun 2025 15:10 |
| Last Modified: | 22 Sep 2025 20:49 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/55018 |
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