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