The Shroud at court
Subtitle: history, usages, places and images of a dynastic relic
By: edited by Paolo Cozzo, Andrea Merlotti, Andrea Nicolotti
Series: Art and material culture in medieval and Renaissance Europe -- volume 13; Art and material culture in Medieval and Renaissance Europe -- v. 13.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 377
ISBN-13: 9789004389052; 9789004390508
Subjects: History; Holy Shroud; Court and courtiers; Religious life and customs; Courts and courtiers
Description: "The Shroud at the Court analyses, through various essays characterized by a multidisciplinary and diachronic perspective, the strict ties created between the Shroud and the Savoy court from the fifteenth to twentieth centuries. Presented as proof of the divine legitimacy of Savoy lineage, the Shroud (of which the Savoy dynasty came into possession in 1453, keeping it first in Chambéry and then from 1578 in Turin) was central to their propagandistic strategies. The court--its spaces, protagonists, and rituals--became the natural setting for a relationship reinforced over time through customs, ceremonies, and images intended to celebrate the excellence of the Savoy, both within their own state and in Europe's 'society of princes.' Contributors are Paola Caretta, Paolo Cornaglia, Paolo Cozzo, Davide De Franco, Bernard Dompnier, Laura Gaffuri, Pierangelo Gentile, Luisella Giachino, Andrea Merlotti, Frédéric Meyer, Andrea Nicolotti, Almudena Pérez de Tudela, Laurent Ripart, Alessandro Serra and Franca Varallo"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Paolo Cozzo, Andrea Merlotti, Andrea Nicolotti; title: Presentation : le Saint Suaire entre pratiques devotionnelles et strategies politiques / Bernard Dompnier; title: The acquisition of the Shroud by the House of Savoy : documentary evidence / Andrea Nicolotti; title: Le Saint Suaire, les Savoie et Chambery (1453-1515) / Laurent Ripart; title: Centre dynastique, religiosite et memoire urbaine : Chambery et le Saint Suaire du XVie au XVIIIe siecle / Frederic Meyer; title: The first exhibitions of the Shroud in Piedmont and Yolande of Valois, Duchess of Savoy / Laura Gaffuri; title: A relic to see and touch : the sensory dimension of the Shroud in court (XVI-XX centuries) / Paolo Cozzo; title: The Holy Shroud between the Court of Savoy and the city of Turin : the ostensions in seventeenth and nineteenth centuries (1630-1831) / Andrea Merlotti; title: Turin and the Holy Shroud : supplies of wheat and management of public order during the ostensions (XVII-XVIII centuries) / Davide De Franco; title: Syndonic panegyrics in the 17th century / Luisella Giachino; title: "Accesi di devoto affetto verso questa meravigliosa reliquia" : the Roman archconfraternity of the Most Holy Shroud's devotional choices and strategies of cult promotion (17th-18th centuries) / Alessandro Serra; title: The Shroud in the ceremonial policy of the House of Savoy between the end of the 16th century and the 18th century / Franca Varallo; title: "Se bene e nella citta di Torino, nondimeno in qualche parte ne gode Roma" : some considerations on the (mis)fortune of Savoyard iconography in Papal Rome / Paola Caretta; title: The old Piedmont becomes the new Italy : the ostensions for the nuptials of the Crown Princes Vittorio Emanuele and Umberto (1842-1868) / Pierangelo Gentile; title: Copies of the Holy Shroud for the Court of King Philip II of Spain (1527-1598) / Almudena Perez de Tudela Gabaldon; title: Museum versus Chapel of the Holy Shroud : the octagonal hall of the Palace of Victor Amadeus I, Duke of Savoy and King of Cyprus / Paolo Cornaglia.