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- Title
SAINT GENEVIÈVE'S MIRACLES ART AND RELIGION IN EIGHT EE NT II-CENTURY PARIS.
- Authors
WILLIAMS, HANNAH
- Abstract
This art-historical study of Saint Geneviève's miracles explores an alternative path through France's histories of religion and secularization. The article follows four objects--the saint's relics, two paintings, and the building which became the Panthèon--across four moments in the city's history, from the jubilant procession of her miraculous relics in 1694, to their public burning in 1793 during the Revolution. But far from articulating the familiar story from religious triumph to demise, this material investigation of rituals and ex-votos poses a challenge to grand narratives of progressive secularization and the mythical place of the Revolution in the birth of France's secularist modernity. The vastly underexplored terrain of eighteenth-century religious art here tempers dominant narratives by tracing different experiences of religion through the lives of these often contested objects. Their use, reuse, transformations and appropriations reveal not religious decline, but shifting devotional practices and changing relationships with religious ideas and institutions.
- Subjects
HISTORY of Paris, France; GENEVIEVE, Saint, ca. 420-ca. 500; MIRACLES; SECULARIZATION; RELIGIOUS art; EIGHTEENTH century; HISTORY
- Publication
French History, 2016, Vol 30, Issue 3, p322
- ISSN
0269-1191
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/fh/crv076