A tale of the Sacred

Sacred architectures between Calabria and Normandy: spirituality and power

The digital creation through video projections aims to offer an evocative vision of the sacred architectures and monastic complexes that, between Calabria and Normandy, bear witness to the legacy of the Norman presence. These buildings will be portrayed not only as material structures, as "stones" that preserve traces of a millennia-old history, but especially as "places" lived: spaces traversed by men and women, clergy and laity, guardians of practices, objects, relationships, and memories.

The projections will highlight the dual nature of these sites, places of the sacred and spirituality, but also scenarios of temporal power and the social dynamics that marked the Mediterranean Middle Ages. Through a visual dialogue between the two regions, common elements and cultural references generated by the Norman presence will emerge, as well as the specificities of the Calabrian contexts, which the conquerors from the North managed to adapt to, giving rise to original forms of encounter and contamination between cultures, traditions, and architectural languages.

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