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https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/138453| Title: | Malta’s medieval cave-churches : their cultural context and artistic relevance |
| Authors: | Buhagiar, Keith |
| Keywords: | Cave churches -- Malta -- Rabat Excavations (Archaeology) -- Malta Christian art and symbolism -- Malta Architecture, Medieval -- Malta Monasticism and religious orders -- Malta -- History Cultural landscapes -- Malta Wied ir-Rum (Dingli, Malta) -- History Cave churches -- Malta -- Dingli |
| Issue Date: | 2020 |
| Publisher: | University of Malta. Department of History |
| Citation: | Buhagiar, K. (2020). Malta’s medieval cave-churches: their cultural context and artistic relevance. Journal of Maltese History, 6(1), 39-61. |
| Abstract: | The rock excavated churches discussed in this paper are the product of a strong cave-dwelling tradition filtering into Malta through the archipelago’s close links with south-eastern Sicily in the post AD 1127 period. This paper seeks to draw awareness on a relatively unknown phase of Malta’s socio-religious cultural past through the examination of cave church distribution in north and north-west Malta and their typology and artistic decoration. It presents the preliminary results of personal on-going research carried out in Sicily and Malta and includes data on the recently rediscovered church of St James at Wied ir-Rum in the territory of Rabat (Malta), the existence of which had faded from popular memory during the past centuries. |
| URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/138453 |
| ISSN: | 20774338 |
| Appears in Collections: | Scholarly Works - FacArtCA |
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