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Portraits, the cult of relics and the affirmation of hierarchy at an early medieval monastery: San Vincenzo al Volturno

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

John Mitchell  and
Richard Hodges
John Mitchell
Affiliation:
School of World Art & Museology, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, England
Richard Hodges
Affiliation:
School of World Art & Museology, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, England
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Abstract

San Vincenzo al Volturno is an early medieval monastery in the high province of Molise, southeast of Rome, and site of most substantial excavations over the last 15 years. The publication of portrait wall-paintings from the crypt of its great church, San Vincenzo Maggiore, is occasion to examine the place of the individual in that religious society.

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Antiquity , Volume 70 , Issue 267 , March 1996 , pp. 20 - 30
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1996

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