Luigi Canetti

Full Professor

Department of Cultural Heritage

Academic discipline: HIST-04/B History of Christianity and Churches

Research

Keywords: images relics hagiography rituals dreams ornatus ornamenta miracles statues reliquaries treasures ecstasy possession

- Dream and therapy form Antiquity to the Renaissance

- Ornamentum and ornamenta in the European culture from Antiquity to the Renaissance.

6. The myth of the aniconic origins and its fortunes in the Middle Ages.

7. Votive offerings: rites and imagery in Christian History

8. Ecstasy and demonic possession in the first Christian Millenium