Texts as images, texts and images: Studying graffiti in the Moldavian Churches as material and devotional practices
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: This essay analyzes visitors? graffiti, dated back to the periodbetween the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries, from thechurches and monasteries of the Moldavian Principality. Regardingtheir roles as self-affirmative records, commemorativedevices, and communicative tools within sacred spaces,it highlights their materiality and intrinsic connection to thearchitectural and social environment. It further examinesliterary evidence of graffiti-writing in the Eastern Christiantradition and concludes that the textual accounts treated thegraffiti as acts of piety performed by pilgrims.
Source: Zograf
DOI: 10.2298/zog2448169a
Author: Anna Adashinskaya
Institution: University of Bucharest
Language: English
Topic: Religious Tourism and Spaces
Subfield: Geography, Planning and Development
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
Funder: Leibniz-Gemeinschaft
OpenAlex ID: W7106300844