Beatrice Institute Podcast Miraculous Images and Contemporary Meaning-Making with Chris Nygren
Chris Nygren teaches history of art and architecture and serves as the Director of Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Nygren joins us to discuss miracle-making images, specifically those associated with healing from plague. Dr. Nygren examines what these icons meant to people in the past and how they continue to matter to believers today. We end our discussion by talking about the images of Pope Francis giving his Urbi et Orbi in an empty St. Peter’s Square.
The images referenced in this episode can be found on our website: https://beatriceinstitute.org/miraculous-images-and-contemporary-meaning-making-images
Miraculous images
Boccaccio’s Decameron
Rituals of remembrance and the contingency of society
Making sense of survival
The intersection of Catholic devotion and public health
Icons as plague protection
Pope Francis’s Urbi et Orbi
Corporeal power in images
Contemporary meaning-making
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