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- Title
BIOARCHEOLOGICKÉ PRŮZKUMY OSTATKŮ SVATÝCH Z KATAKOMB A JEJICH TRANSLACE V OBDOBÍ BAROKA DO VÝZNAMNÝCH MÍST V JIŽNÍCH ČECHÁCH.
- Authors
THOMOVÁ, ZUZANA; ŠÁLKOVÁ, TEREZA; PRŮCHOVÁ, ERIKA; JOHN, JAN; CHERKINSKY, ALEXANDER
- Abstract
The subject and the objective of this study is the assessment of bioarchaeological research into relics from reliquaries which, according to written sources, held the relics of saints from Roman catacombs, as well as their translocation to important sites in South Bohemia in the baroque period. Relics are rather unusual historical phenomena the very research and interpretation of which are unconventional, based on the manner of depositing, approach to the subject on the part of the church and the environment from which they originate. An example of the relics of two saints from catacombs, the martyrs St. Auratian from the Church of St. Nicholas in České Budějovice and St. Felix from the Church of the Holiest Trinity near Nová Bystřice, serves to describe the process of the transfer of relics from Roman catacombs to Bohemia, with the help of bioarchaeological methods employed in archaeology in order to reconstruct past populations. Radiocarbon dating showed that the relics were indeed from the Roman period, and their transfer to central Europe in the early modern age thus aptly illustrates baroque religiousness.
- Publication
Archaeologia Historica, 2019, Vol 44, Issue 2, p795
- ISSN
0231-5823
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5817/AH2019-2-13