RT Article
T1 Blood Kinetics and Narrative Performance in Early Modern Devotions to the Shroud of Turin
JF The sixteenth century journal
VO 50
IS 2
SP 371
OP 397
A1 Casper, Andrew R.
LA English
PB Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers, Inc.
YR 2019
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1693728877
AB The Shroud of Turin experienced its most intense devotional enthusiasm in the century after its first public exhibition in Turin in 1578. During this period, the cloth and its mysterious imprint of Christ's body transcended the static nature of an icon by becoming a performative image in the context of private devotional worship. Operating in consort with devotional texts, the figuration of Christ's crucified body activates the otherwise static depiction of flowing of blood. Furthermore, the Shroud permitted beholders to witness a narrative performance of Christ's death and resurrection through the possession and manipulation of reproductions, making the movement of Christ's body in and out of the tomb a kinetically visible phenomenon. These performative qualities of the Shroud of Turin, as well as the beholder's active interaction with it, guaranteed its devotional prestige and facilitate new considerations of the role of images in religious devotion.
K1 Devotional literature
K1 Holy Shroud
K1 Jesus Christ
K1 Relics
K1 Resurrection
K1 Turin (Italy)