Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 12457
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Vilatte , Sylvie.
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  • Title: La "déuote Image noire de Nostre-Dame" du Puy-en-Velay: histoire du reliquaire roman et de son noircissement [The author argues that the Virgin from Puy-en-Velay had her face blackened in the fourteenth century in response to pressures from crusades and efforts to convert the Muslims].
  • Source: Revue Belge de Philologie et d'Historie 74, 2 ( 1996): Pages 727 - 760.
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  • Article Type: Journal Article
  • Subject (See Also): Art History- Sculpture Black Virgin from Puy-en-Velay Blackening Blacks Mary, Virgin, Saint in Art Reliquaries
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  • Geographic Area: France
  • Century: 10- 11, 14
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  • Year of Publication: 1996.
  • Language: French
  • ISSN/ISBN: 00350818