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SUMMARY:Rites of Passage: Exile and Return in Pictorial Narratives Featuri
 ng the Sacraments - Dr Alixe Bovey\, University of Kent
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CONTACT:Miss L Slater
DESCRIPTION:This paper examines the place of sacraments in pictorial narra
 tives that\nrecount exile from and return to Christian community. The main
  focus is on the\nextraordinary body of bas-de-page pictorial narratives i
 n the Smithfield\nDecretals (London\, BL\, Royal 10 E IV)\, a canon law ma
 nuscript that was\nilluminated in London c. 1340\, and in particular on im
 ages of Sts Eustace\,\nJehan Paulus\, Thaïs\, and Mary of Egypt\; the leg
 end of the Three Living and the\nThree Dead\; and the romance Octavian. It
  argues that in narratives describing\njourneys that are simultaneously ph
 ysical and spiritual\, sacraments\, and\nespecially baptism and the euchar
 ist\, can operate dramatically and also\ndidactically as rites de passage.
  Taken together\, such tales seem to prompt the\nviewer to consider the sa
 craments as moments of rupture and also\nreconciliation.\n
LOCATION:The History of Art Graduate Centre - 4a Trumpington Street
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