Pippin Michelli, Assistant Professor of Art History, St Olaf College
My Ph.D research focussed on the Pre-Norman crosiers of Ireland - some of
which were designed as reliquaries, and others were later adapted. I
published a corpus and analysis of surviving inscriptions on all kinds of
Pre-Norman Irish reliquary, which threw light on their historical and
cultural purposes. More recently, I have worked on an Anglo-Saxon
pendant-cross reliquary in the Victoria and Albert museum (not yet
published), and I seem to have become associated with research into
reliquaries. Using a little known early medieval definition of art, I
have questioned our identification of the Vulgate text in the Codex
Amiatinus and Lindisfarne Gospels. Currently I am working on the interaction
between that definition of art, and a cyclic timing mechanism for political,
ecclesiastical, and artistic events which seems to indicate that all such
activities were seen as aspects of a single cosmic, prophetic chronology.
Pippin Michelli, Ph.D
Art Department, St Olaf College
http://www.stolaf.edu/people/michelli/index4.html
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