Un mistico Armellino: saints, furs, and slaves between the Lithuanian and Tuscan Grand Duchies
EN[...] Cosimo’s letter was part of a larger and longer diplomatic epistolary ex change accompanied by gifts and favors involving both Bishop Pac and his cousin, Lithuanian Grand Hetman Michał Kazimierz Pac (1624–82), commander of the armed forces for the Lithuanian Grand Duchy. The Italo Baltic gift exchange between Cosimo and the two preeminent Pacowie family members took place over the course of almost a decade. [...] What follows emplots the seventeenth-century manufacture and exchange of relics, reliquaries, and other luxury objects between the Medici and Pacowie against Counter-Reformation notions of sanctity associated with northeastern Europe, showing how these were entangled with practices of enslavement that tethered the Baltic region to Italy for centuries. This chapter also addresses questions of how hagiography studies after the material and spatial turns can contribute to ongoing discussions across fields which center around productively problematizing notions of canonicity, de-colonizing early modern histories (including those of Europe), and recovering previously marginalized or even silenced subjectivities. [Extract, p. 41-42]
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