Adriatic Sea , routes and ports in Late Antiquity
and Early Middle Ages according to the
hagiographic sources Cover Image

Jadransko more , rute i luke u ranom srednjem veku prema hagiografskim izvorima
Adriatic Sea , routes and ports in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages according to the hagiographic sources

Adriatics’ paths of the saints and relics in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages

Author(s): Dubravka Preradović
Subject(s): Cultural history, 6th to 12th Centuries
Published by: Историјски институт Црне Горe
Keywords: hagiography; saints; relics; early medieval time; Adriatic Sea; routes; ports

Summary/Abstract: In the article the narratives concerning the lives of the saints and translations of theirs relics are analyzed in order to establish through saints’ and relics’ itineraries dissemination of theirs cults on the Adriatic littoral. Although modest in numbers examined texts shows presence of the saints on the Adriatic shores in early Christian period, migration of the saints’ relics from Pannonia and Dalmatia in Rome and Constantinople due to the barbaric invasions, and important new cultural stratum at the beginning of the 9th century, when most of the Adriatic re-entered in the byzantine political sphere

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 3-4
  • Page Range: 7-34
  • Page Count: 27
  • Language: Serbian