Les aventures du Sant Calze de Valence : quand la fiction se fait objet de foi et de mémoire

The article focuses the Santo Cáliz or, in Valencian, Sant Calze housed in the cathedral of Valencia (Spain). According to a legend elaborated in Aragon between the 11th and 14th centuries, the object, a 1st century vase mounted in a chalice during the Middle Ages, is supposed to be the cup by which...

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Main Author: Sophie Albert
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Language:English
Published: Société de Langues et de Littératures Médiévales d'Oc et d'Oil 2020-01-01
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/peme/23205
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description The article focuses the Santo Cáliz or, in Valencian, Sant Calze housed in the cathedral of Valencia (Spain). According to a legend elaborated in Aragon between the 11th and 14th centuries, the object, a 1st century vase mounted in a chalice during the Middle Ages, is supposed to be the cup by which Jesus established the Eucharistic rite at the Last Supper. While having structural similarities with the Arthurian Grail novels, the legend of the Sant Calze shows distinct issues: if not a literary motif, it is a material object, an object of faith and memory. It is part of a political and religious discourse that offers a christian-centered, monarchist and, in the 20th century, national-catholic vision of Spain history. The first part of the article describes the steps of the Sant Calze’s translatio and shows how the object has been taken up and invested by Franco’s ideology. The second part studies its modes of presence, its uses and its staging both in the cathedral of Valence and in the other places where it has been exhibited, moved or reproduced. The displacements, misappropriations, and manipulations of the Sant Calze shows how memorial discourses are staged and embodied or, here, reified.
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spelling doaj-art-59422fc3ab3240a48e428f9d1db5f8ed2025-01-13T15:29:43ZengSociété de Langues et de Littératures Médiévales d'Oc et d'OilPerspectives Médiévales2262-55342020-01-014110.4000/peme.23205Les aventures du Sant Calze de Valence : quand la fiction se fait objet de foi et de mémoireSophie AlbertThe article focuses the Santo Cáliz or, in Valencian, Sant Calze housed in the cathedral of Valencia (Spain). According to a legend elaborated in Aragon between the 11th and 14th centuries, the object, a 1st century vase mounted in a chalice during the Middle Ages, is supposed to be the cup by which Jesus established the Eucharistic rite at the Last Supper. While having structural similarities with the Arthurian Grail novels, the legend of the Sant Calze shows distinct issues: if not a literary motif, it is a material object, an object of faith and memory. It is part of a political and religious discourse that offers a christian-centered, monarchist and, in the 20th century, national-catholic vision of Spain history. The first part of the article describes the steps of the Sant Calze’s translatio and shows how the object has been taken up and invested by Franco’s ideology. The second part studies its modes of presence, its uses and its staging both in the cathedral of Valence and in the other places where it has been exhibited, moved or reproduced. The displacements, misappropriations, and manipulations of the Sant Calze shows how memorial discourses are staged and embodied or, here, reified.https://journals.openedition.org/peme/23205crusadetranslatioGrailcultrelicliturgy
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title Les aventures du Sant Calze de Valence : quand la fiction se fait objet de foi et de mémoire
title_full Les aventures du Sant Calze de Valence : quand la fiction se fait objet de foi et de mémoire
title_fullStr Les aventures du Sant Calze de Valence : quand la fiction se fait objet de foi et de mémoire
title_full_unstemmed Les aventures du Sant Calze de Valence : quand la fiction se fait objet de foi et de mémoire
title_short Les aventures du Sant Calze de Valence : quand la fiction se fait objet de foi et de mémoire
title_sort les aventures du sant calze de valence quand la fiction se fait objet de foi et de memoire
topic crusade
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url https://journals.openedition.org/peme/23205
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