Original scientific paper
Insediamenti, chiese e porti lungo il basso Adige tra VI e X secolo
Gian Pietro Brogiolo
; University of Padua, Italy
Abstract
In the 6th century the Adige river, which ran through the towns of Montagnana, Este, Monselice (Padua) and Brondolo (Chioggia, Venice), moved 20 km southward. Nevertheless, as extant churches and their liturgical furniture demonstrate, the most important towns survived this change, perhaps thanks to artificial waterways. During an update of the corpus of the early medieval churches in the Padua province, we studied these buildings systematically, using written and archaeological sources, as well as the detailed descriptions provided by the pastoral visits of the bishop Barozzi (1489). We hypothesize that a great number of recorded churches, as well as their liturgical furniture (see Vedovetto in this volume), can be dated prior the 10th century, although this could only be confirmed by new archaeological data.
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Publication date:
1.5.2016.
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