Year: 2018
Type: book
Abstract: Veronica West-Harling Personal names and saints' cults in Venice, the Adriatic and the entroterra in the ninth and tenth centuries Land ownership and exchanges, business interests, legal and administrative customs and institutions, all indicate that the duchy of Venice in the 9 th and 10 th centuries was closely intertwined with northern and central Italy, and especially with its Adriatic background.Th is paper examines one specifi c example of the association of Venice with the Adriatic and northern Italy, through anthroponymy and saints' cults.Th e fi rst, dominant connection, is that is with Ravenna and the old Exarchate.Th e second is with the Adriatic coast North of Venice, from Aquileia and Grado along the coast to Istria.Th e third, though less prominent, is with the Veneto, the Po valley and up to Friuli.I will take them in turn.Th e exarchal connection with regard to the cults of the saints is two-fold.Its fi rst strand is the cult of Ravenna saints, of whom the most visible in Venice at this date are those of Severus, Pantaleon and Fosca.One can see this through the choice of dedications of Venetian churches founded or allegedly founded in the 9 th and 10 th centuries 1 .Th e church of S. Severo, already in existence by the 850s, was given to the monastic foundation of S. Lorenzo 2 .Th e original island monastery of S. Servolo was given a new dedication when it moved to the ter-1 U. Franzoi, D. Di Stefano, Le chiese di Venezia, Venice, 1976.Th e main sources for the history of Venice are now edited online in Documenti veneziani by A. Pazienza, on the
Authors: Sauro Gelichi, Stefano Gapsarri, Gelichi, Sauro, Gasparri, Stefano
Language: Spanish
Subfield: History
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4300645845