The Virgin of Savina: Identity and Multiculturalism
The Virgin of Savina: Identity and Multiculturalism
Author(s): Marina MatićSubject(s): Cultural history, History of Church(es), 16th Century, Eastern Orthodoxy
Published by: Balkanološki institut - Srpska akademija nauka i umetnosti
Keywords: Gulf of Kotor (Boka Kotorska/Bocche di Cattaro); Virgin of Savina; Cretan School; ex-voto; palladium; multiculturalism; identity
Summary/Abstract: The sixteenth-century miracle-working icon of the Virgin Glykophilousa in the Serbian Orthodox monastery of Savina, modern Montenegro, has been the focus of cult and devotions for centuries. A compelling visual presence, it played multiple roles: liturgical, social, legal, and cultic. In each of its roles, it provided support for ethnic and religious identity, being above all a palladium both for believers as individuals and for the Orthodox Christian community as a whole in the complex multicultural and multiconfessional contexts of foreign Venetian rule in the eighteenth-century Gulf of Kotor (Boka Kotorska/Bocche di Cattaro).
Journal: BALCANICA
- Issue Year: 2017
- Issue No: 48
- Page Range: 33-54
- Page Count: 20
- Language: English