All Roads Led to Rome

Subtitle: 
Processional Imagery and Paradigms of Pilgrimage in Late Medieval Lazio
Activity Type: 
Lecture
Presenter: 
Rebekah Perry
Date: 
Wednesday, October 26, 2011 - 12:00 to 13:00
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Location: 
203 Frick Fine Arts Building

This presentation examined a transformative moment for the traditional procession known as the Inchinata between the mid thirteenth and fourteenth century, a period characterized by the advent of the mendicant friars with their new models of personal devotion and do-it-yourself religion, the emergence of confraternities, the growing prominence of trade guilds, the solidifying of municipal government, the rise of the middle classes, and a new emphasis on penitential pilgrimage, especially to the city of Rome. Perry argues that within this context, Tivoli's ceremonial cult image took on a new allegorical identity of "Christ-as-pilgrim" and that the Inchinata procession functioned as a type of moving morality play that "performed" new models of bourgeois Christian conduct.

UCIS Unit: 
European Studies Center
Non-University Sponsors: 
Department of History of Art and Architecture
World Regions: 
Europe