What is it about?
Chapter 1 of “Sacred Medieval Objects and Their Afterlives in Scandinavia” introduces this collaborative volume that sheds new light on the making, ageing and display of objects that were central to medieval Christianity in the Scandinavian countries.
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Why is it important?
In addition to introducing the book and its authors, this chapter addresses how surviving remnants of medieval church culture were perceived in a Scandinavian past, and the many factors that have influenced their survival into the present. It probes the shifting status and changing physical form of sacred objects that survive in considerable numbers across Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Iceland.
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This page is a summary of: The Shifting Status of Sacred Medieval Objects in Scandinavia, December 2024, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1163/9789004712034_002.
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