No. LI (2020)
Articles

Translations of Saints’ Relics in the Late Medieval Central Balkans

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  • Marija Vasiljević
Marija Vasiljević
Institute for Balkan Studies, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts

Published 02.11.2022

Keywords

  • translations of saints’ relics,
  • Late Middle Ages,
  • central Balkans, St Petka,
  • Empress Theophano,
  • Constantine the Great,
  • St Luke the Evangelist,
  • John of Rila,
  • King Stefan Uroš II Milutin
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How to Cite

Vasiljević, M. (2022). Translations of Saints’ Relics in the Late Medieval Central Balkans. Balcanica - Annual of the Institute for Balkan Studies, (LI), 23–43. Retrieved from https://balcanica.rs/index.php/journal/article/view/11
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Abstract

The paper discusses the character of the translations of saints’ relics in the late medieval central Balkans, as they increasingly gained prominence as an encouragement to the veneration of saints. The fact that translations grew much more frequent provides the opportunity to analyse the motivations behind this practice, the ways in which relics were acquired, the types of translation processions and their symbolic significance. The relic translations in the central Balkans in the period under study fitted the Christian translation pattern in every respect and stood halfway between history and cult and, frequently, between politics and cult.

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