(Re-)imagining Tongeren as Heavenly Jerusalem during the septennial relic display of 1517 through rituals, reliquaries, and a relic sheet
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- Caroline Van Sumere (UGent)
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- Abstract
- This article explores how Tongeren was reimagined as a Heavenly Jerusalem during the septennial relic displays. More specifically, it argues that both the ostension and its reproduction in print (1517) enabled the imagination of divine presence, or the proximity of grace. By examining a variety of sources – namely, a pilgrim’s journal, an ordinal, account books, a relic sheet, and the reliquaries themselves – the article attempts a reconstruction of what the audience saw and what they did not see during the ostensions, and how this tension between visibility and invisibility stimulated their imagination. Similarly, the imaginative potential of the relic sheet in personal devotional practices is explored. Through considering the interaction of rituals, objects, images, text, and memory, this article hopes to contribute to scholarship on collective and individual imaginative practices of devotion.
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- Religion, Material culture, Art History, History, Tongeren
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-01JSGSBEPAXXDCVBECBASSDH6K
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- Van Sumere, Caroline. “(Re-)Imagining Tongeren as Heavenly Jerusalem during the Septennial Relic Display of 1517 through Rituals, Reliquaries, and a Relic Sheet.” ONS GEESTELIJK ERF, vol. 94, no. 1–3, 2024, pp. 117–49, doi:10.2143/OGE.94.1.3293965.
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- Van Sumere, C. (2024). (Re-)imagining Tongeren as Heavenly Jerusalem during the septennial relic display of 1517 through rituals, reliquaries, and a relic sheet. ONS GEESTELIJK ERF, 94(1–3), 117–149. https://doi.org/10.2143/OGE.94.1.3293965
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- Van Sumere, Caroline. 2024. “(Re-)Imagining Tongeren as Heavenly Jerusalem during the Septennial Relic Display of 1517 through Rituals, Reliquaries, and a Relic Sheet.” ONS GEESTELIJK ERF 94 (1–3): 117–49. https://doi.org/10.2143/OGE.94.1.3293965.
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- Van Sumere, Caroline. 2024. “(Re-)Imagining Tongeren as Heavenly Jerusalem during the Septennial Relic Display of 1517 through Rituals, Reliquaries, and a Relic Sheet.” ONS GEESTELIJK ERF 94 (1–3): 117–149. doi:10.2143/OGE.94.1.3293965.
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- 1.Van Sumere C. (Re-)imagining Tongeren as Heavenly Jerusalem during the septennial relic display of 1517 through rituals, reliquaries, and a relic sheet. ONS GEESTELIJK ERF. 2024;94(1–3):117–49.
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- [1]C. Van Sumere, “(Re-)imagining Tongeren as Heavenly Jerusalem during the septennial relic display of 1517 through rituals, reliquaries, and a relic sheet,” ONS GEESTELIJK ERF, vol. 94, no. 1–3, pp. 117–149, 2024.
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