Matérialiser la frontière autour de l’empereur dans l’Antiquité tardive by Maxime Emion

“…The interplay of material realities, rhetoric of sacredness, and ritual practices blurred the limits between image and reality, and turned the emperor himself into a frontier-being, belonging to both the earthly and the heavenly worlds.…”
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Les paons affrontés dans l’art lombard des viii e‑ix e siècles by Raphaël Demès

“…Perceived as a psychopomp since antiquity, the peacock accompanies the spiritual elevation of the faithful and imposes itself as an additional mediator between the earthly and the heavenly. Gathered together at the threshold of the choir, the peacocks in confrontation relay the scope of the sacrament of communion and invite the faithful to cross the frontier of the material, the visible, the sensitive. …”
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