"Objects of Devotion" explores the ways in which art supported religious practice in different times and places. Objects ranging from small-scale works of personal nature, such as Byzantine pilgrim ...

Whether we realize it or not, at every moment we stand devoted to something—something which we cherish above all others. It may be money, a job, a person, an ideal, or our own comfort, but whatever it ...

Alabaster production during the Middle Ages centered on the making and selling of finely decorated, gilded and colored sculpture to churches, nobles, and owners of private chapels. More common ...

This past semester, the students in Art History seminar “Displaying Devotion” considered issues raised by the medieval alabasters in Object of Devotion.The objects chosen reveal that devotion is a ...

The subtitle for this engrossing work is also the name of the first religion-oriented exhibit at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History. This landmark study of the role of ...

After spending just a few minutes at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's spectacular "The Splendor of Byzantium: Faith and Power (1261-1557)," I noticed that I had begun to speak in a reverential whisper ...

Vol. 42, No. 1/2, "SOMETHING FEARFUL": MEDIEVALIST SCHOLARS ON THE RELIGIOUS TURN (spring-summer 2010), pp. 299-315 (17 pages) Religion and Literature is a scholarly journal that provides a forum for ...

Inherent devotion resides within us all. I use the word devotion with the acceptance of its weighty connotation, and so eschew a lighter term — commitment, for example — to illustrate the point more ...

Religion has never been simple in the United States, and there's a lot more to the stories we learned in school. Objects Of Devotion: Tracing Religion In Early America With guest host Noel King. There ...