Portraits, the cult of relics and the affirmation of hierarchy at an early medieval monastery: San Vincenzo al Volturno

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

E-ISSN: 1745-1744|70|267|20-30

ISSN: 0003-598x

Source: Antiquity, Vol.70, Iss.267, 1996-03, pp. : 20-30

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Abstract

San Vincenzo al Volturno is an early medieval monastery in the high province of Molise, southeast of Rome, and site of most substantial excavations over the last 15 years. The publication of portrait wall-paintings from the crypt of its great church, San Vincenzo Maggiore, is occasion to examine the place of the individual in that religious society.