Editorial: Brill
Colección: Contexts of Ancient and Medieval Anthropology ; 5
Número de páginas: 275 págs.
Fecha de edición: 07-07-2023
EAN: 9783506790828
ISBN: 978-3-506-79082-8
Precio (sin IVA): 116,90 €
Precio (IVA incluído): 121,58 €
This book argues that Romans credited certain living persons with the capacity to function as cult statues, that is, as images and vessels of the divine. After addressing the cultural context that produced the idea that humans can become images of the divine, the text shows how emperors, bishops, and others imitated the aesthetic, immobility, and material setting of statuary to establish themselves as iconic and how their role as mediators with the divine was eventually transferred to new categories of material objects, such as relics and icons.