Cucu, A. I., Perciaccante, A., Galassi, F. M., Nemtoi, A. and Bianucci, R. (2022) Votive offerings from Floresti Orthodox monastery in Romania : an ophthalmological lesson from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries CE. Journal of Religion and Health . doi:10.1007/s10943-022-01571-z (In Press)

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Abstract

Since Antiquity, votive offerings were deposited in temples dedicated to deities in order to fulfil a special request of a supplicant. Later, in Orthodox churches, votive offerings entered in the form of anatomical ex-voto or tamata, metallic effigies that realistically represented the disease-affected portion of the body. In this paper, we show four tamata from eighteenth–nineteenth century identified in the museum of the Orthodox monastery of Floresti (Romania); votive offerings that represent ocular pathologies. Even if the supplicants did not have a medical background and often did not fully understand their diseases, the votive offerings demonstrate their ability to observe pathological changes, at the same time emphasising the importance of their faith in the healing process.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Divisions:	Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Biomedical Sciences Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School
Journal or Publication Title:	Journal of Religion and Health
Publisher:	Springer
ISSN:	0022-4197
Official Date:	2022
Dates:	Date Event 2022 Published 26 April 2022 Available 11 April 2022 Accepted
Number of Pages:	9
DOI:	10.1007/s10943-022-01571-z
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	In Press
Access rights to Published version:	Restricted or Subscription Access
Copyright Holders:	The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature

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