Tunic and Coins: Contrasting Materialities and Agency of Singular Objects in the Medieval Legendary

This work traces medieval references to the origin and supernatural characteristics of a relic, Christ’s seamless tunic. The survey leads to the inclusion of some tales concerning this garment in the medieval Christian legendary: in some versions of the legend about the origin of Judas’ thirty piece...

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Autor principal: Morin , Alejandro
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Publicado: Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires 2024
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spelling I28-R145-16570_oai2025-11-17 Morin , Alejandro 2024-12-26 This work traces medieval references to the origin and supernatural characteristics of a relic, Christ’s seamless tunic. The survey leads to the inclusion of some tales concerning this garment in the medieval Christian legendary: in some versions of the legend about the origin of Judas’ thirty pieces of silver, the story threads with that relating to the tunic and its origin and this occurs in both Eastern and Western versions of the legend. The analysis of the Christian legendary about these objects focuses on the conceptions of materiality and agency of things, raising the idea of ​​an ongoing reflection on different types of materiality and the role of artifice in Christian society. This article proposes the hypothesis of a possible contrast between the materialities of these singular objects and from there formulates the following questions. With respect to the tunic and the thirty coins, heterogeneous but narratively linked entities, is it possible to speak of two different and/or opposing agencies? If answered affirmatively, would such agency be in relation to a different materiality? This work presents some lines of exploration on these themes. En este trabajo se rastrean referencias de la cultura medieval al origen y características sobrenaturales de una reliquia crística, la túnica inconsútil. El rastreo conduce a la inclusión de algunos relatos concernientes a esta prenda en el registro del legendario cristiano medieval: en algunas versiones de la leyenda del origen de los treinta denarios de Judas el relato se articula con el relativo a la túnica y su procedencia y ello ocurre tanto en versiones orientales como occidentales de la leyenda. El análisis del legendario cristiano en torno de estos objetos focaliza en las concepciones en torno la materialidad y la agencia de objetos, planteando la idea de una reflexión en acto sobre distintos tipos de materialidad y sobre el papel del artificio en la sociedad cristiana. Se trabaja la hipótesis de una posible contraposición entre las materialidades de estos objetos singulares y a partir de allí se formulan los siguientes interrogantes: respecto de la túnica y el conjunto de las treinta monedas, entidades heterogéneas pero enlazadas narrativamente, ¿es posible hablar de dos tipos de agencia distintos y/o contrapuestos? En caso de responder afirmativamente, ¿tal agencia estaría en relación con una distinta materialidad? El trabajo presenta algunas líneas de exploración sobre estas temáticas. application/pdf https://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/analesHAMM/article/view/16570 10.34096/ahamm.v58.2.16570 spa Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires https://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/analesHAMM/article/view/16570/14051 Derechos de autor 2024 Anales de Historia Antigua, Medieval y Moderna Anales de Historia Antigua, Medieval y Moderna; Vol. 58 Núm. 2 (2024) 1853-1555 1514-9927 seamless garment thirty pieces of silver materiality object agency it biography túnica inconsútil treinta denarios de Judas materialidad agencia de objetos biografía de objetos Tunic and Coins: Contrasting Materialities and Agency of Singular Objects in the Medieval Legendary Túnica y monedas: materialidades contrapuestas y agencia de objetos singulares en el legendario medieval info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Artículo evaluado por pares https://repositoriouba.sisbi.uba.ar/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=moderna&d=16570_oai
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topic seamless garment
thirty pieces of silver
materiality
object agency
it biography
túnica inconsútil
treinta denarios de Judas
materialidad
agencia de objetos
biografía de objetos
spellingShingle seamless garment
thirty pieces of silver
materiality
object agency
it biography
túnica inconsútil
treinta denarios de Judas
materialidad
agencia de objetos
biografía de objetos
Morin , Alejandro
Tunic and Coins: Contrasting Materialities and Agency of Singular Objects in the Medieval Legendary
topic_facet seamless garment
thirty pieces of silver
materiality
object agency
it biography
túnica inconsútil
treinta denarios de Judas
materialidad
agencia de objetos
biografía de objetos
description This work traces medieval references to the origin and supernatural characteristics of a relic, Christ’s seamless tunic. The survey leads to the inclusion of some tales concerning this garment in the medieval Christian legendary: in some versions of the legend about the origin of Judas’ thirty pieces of silver, the story threads with that relating to the tunic and its origin and this occurs in both Eastern and Western versions of the legend. The analysis of the Christian legendary about these objects focuses on the conceptions of materiality and agency of things, raising the idea of ​​an ongoing reflection on different types of materiality and the role of artifice in Christian society. This article proposes the hypothesis of a possible contrast between the materialities of these singular objects and from there formulates the following questions. With respect to the tunic and the thirty coins, heterogeneous but narratively linked entities, is it possible to speak of two different and/or opposing agencies? If answered affirmatively, would such agency be in relation to a different materiality? This work presents some lines of exploration on these themes.
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title Tunic and Coins: Contrasting Materialities and Agency of Singular Objects in the Medieval Legendary
title_short Tunic and Coins: Contrasting Materialities and Agency of Singular Objects in the Medieval Legendary
title_full Tunic and Coins: Contrasting Materialities and Agency of Singular Objects in the Medieval Legendary
title_fullStr Tunic and Coins: Contrasting Materialities and Agency of Singular Objects in the Medieval Legendary
title_full_unstemmed Tunic and Coins: Contrasting Materialities and Agency of Singular Objects in the Medieval Legendary
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