Naslov
Pilgrimages of Croats by sea to Loreto and Assisi in the 18th century: a historiographic and hermeneutical analysis

Autori
Podhraški Čizmek, Zrinka

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Poglavlja u knjigama, znanstveni

Knjiga
Writing Journeys across Cultural Borders

Urednik/ci
Shabliy, Elena V. ; Engerman, Kimarie

Izdavač
Lexington Books

Grad
Landham (MD) : New York (NY)

Godina
2021

Raspon stranica

ISBN
978-1-66690-034-7

Ključne riječi
Pilgrimages ; pilgrims ; travels ; prehistory ; hierophanies ; theophanies ; anthropology of the sacred ; hermeneutics ; Adriatic ; 18th century ; Croatian Maritime Regesta ; Codex Diplomaticus Maritimus Croatiae

Sažetak
This analysis presents the pilgrimages of Croats in the 18th century across the Adriatic Sea to two great Catholic shrines: Loreto and Assisi in Italy. Pilgrimages are contextualized in the very sources of the search for the sacred, from hierophanies of the Paleolithic and the interpretation of the meaning of κόσμος: man from various historical and geographical coordinates travels, devises answers to the unknown and mysterious that intrudes into his world. Journeys and pilgrimages to the places of hierophanies and theophanies continue throughout history in monotheistic religions of the European littoral space, from Judaism, through Christianity, to Islam. The sea and seas are spaces navigated by mercatores et nautae, travelers and pilgrims, in syncretism and a mesh of religions, philosophies and modi vivendi: the seas have proven to be one of the most efficient modes of travel for pilgrimages. The analysis of 16, 000 sources of Regesti marittimi croati I-III vol./Croatian Maritime Regesta vol. I-III yielded the number of 2, 513 pilgrims traveling in 303 pilgrimages from one side of the Adriatic to the other, towards the shrines of Our Lady in Loreto and St. Francis in Assisi. These are indisputable topoi of the Croatian Catholics which demonstrate that a journey, traveling, pilgrimage, is a mode of seeking and giving thanks to the sacred and the divine, perpetuated from pre-Christian traditions reaching all the way to the Paleolithic and demonstrating a unique religious koinè of the European religious pietas onto which the Croatian Christian and then Catholic tradition of the Modern Age grafts itself.

Izvorni jezik
Hrvatski

Znanstvena područja
Interdisciplinarne društvene znanosti, Filozofija, Povijest, Religijske znanosti (interdisciplinarno polje), Interdisciplinarne humanističke znanosti

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