«Bovo Famulus Dei». In Search of the Person Behind the Name in the Monasterium Sancti Heliae
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https://doi.org/10.6093/1593-2214/8096Keywords:
Middle Ages, 12th Century, Castel Sant’Elia, Art History, Biography, PatronageAbstract
Positioned at the heart of art and architectural history, biography presents a real challenge for medievalists. The problem is not a lack of names; it is that in all but a few extraordinary cases they arrive stripped of further information. The usual strategy is to examine comparative cases in search of plausible patronal motivations that can then be applied to other monuments. In this article I work in the other direction, using clues provided by the monument itself – the monastic church of Sant’Elia – to arrive at a biography of its patron: an approach that permits both theroetical and concrete reflection on the biographical method in medieval studies.
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