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Kate Franklin (Tufts University) | Sweet Air of the Grave: Hripsime, Holy Matter, and Archaeology in Armenia

Thursday, November 5, 2026 at 5:30 PM to 6:30 PM

Where
Brown University, Rhode Island Hall
1 Prospect St, Providence, RI 02912 (Providence)
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talk
Source tags
Lectures, Seminars and Workshops, Open to the Public

This talk examines medieval concerns over the power of earth to conceal and reveal, to hold and relinquish, to transform and to consecrate the human body. Medieval knowledge-making of and with relics—the vibrant matter of saintly bodies– make up early forms of what we now identify as archaeological

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