Category: Medieval Devotion
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Wrestling with the Violent Pasts of Objects
I originally trained to write my dissertation using sources and objects in French and Belgian archives. Then I started tracing medieval portable altars and the trail of evidence pulled me eastward. Now my dissertation focuses on portable altars and devotional objects in north-central Germany, specifically the area of Saxony known as the Harz region. Overall,…
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The Portable Altar in Netflix’s “The King”
About an hour and 20 minutes into Netflix’s The King, the young Henry V kneels in prayer inside his tent. It’s a short visual scene, meant to showcase the King’s piety and his continued devotion while on military campaign. But for such a brief moment of film, the set is incredibly accurate. Henry prays before a…
Sarah C. Luginbill 
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