Pallas 118/2022. Objets et lieux sacrés: réalités et imaginaires. beaux arts Il n'y a guère d'imaginaire

Il n'y a guère d'imaginaire plus viril que celui des Vikings : barbares pillards à la barbe hirsute

is often perceived as static

and the image that ancient societies conveyed of them

men are equal to one another and that there are no distinctions of rank or class at birth

choix et signification des décors abstraits et figurés

Pallas 118/2022. Objets et lieux sacrés: réalités et imaginaires. beaux arts Il n'y a guère d'imaginaireThis issue focuses on the symbolic and imaginary construction of sacred spaces and objects in Classical Antiquity, with an opening onto the modern reception of the latter. Through a series of contributions touching on literature, archaeology, and art history, it illustrates the way in which real or semi fictional spaces or objects endowed with a religious dimension are reconfigured or resemanticized according to thought patterns or value systems in