Title:

The 12th century sword of San Galgano in the Hermitage of Montesiepi in Tuscany. A Transmission of the Arthurian Legend?

Alternative Title:

Fasciculi Archaeologiae Historicae. Fasc. 27 (2014)

Creator:

Chodyński, Antoni Romuald

Contributor:

Żabiński, Grzegorz

Subject:

San Galgano, nobleman, knight, hermit, sword, rock, scholarly research, św. Galgano, szlachcic, rycerz, pustelnik, miecz, skała, badania naukowe

Description:

Journal/Article, Czasopismo/Artykuł

Abstract:

The High Middle Ages, when Galgano Guidotti (1148-1181), a Tuscan from Chiusdino lived, was an especially turbulent epoch. In the territory of Tuscany groups of wealthy nobility were active, claiming more political influence. These groups gathered knights who wanted to gain fame and riches in fights. Galgano Guidottiwas fighting in defence of interests of local lords and it is highly probable that he committed many villainies. In the course of such activity he experienced several revelations of Archangel Michael with the flaming sword. These revelations caused a complete spiritual transformation of Galgano. He abandoned secular life and withdrew to an initially primitive hermitage on the hill of Montesiepi. In order to actually and symbolically break up with his hitherto life, he thrust his sword into a rock in such a manner that only the upper part of the weapon with the crosspiece and the pommel projected from the stone, standing out as the sign of the cross. After his death, a masonry rotunda with an adjacent chapel was built in the place of the hut-hermitage. Inside the Rotunda, the sword thrust in the rock is kept until today. The authenticity and convergence of the chronology of the weapon with the period of life of Galgano Guidotti were confirmed by recent scientific research by a chemist Luigi Garlaschelli at the beginning of the 21st c. Further interdisciplinary scientific examinations of the sword are planned

Place of publishing:

Łódź

Publisher:

Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of Polish Academy of Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences. Łódź Branch

Date:

2014

Type:

Text, tekst, Article, artykuł

Format:

application/pdf

Extent:

ill. ; 29 cm, il. ; 29 cm

Identifier:

0860-0007

Source:

IAiE PAN, call no. P III 368, IAiE PAN, call no. P III 348, IAiE PAN, call no. P III 349, http://katalog.pan.pl/webpac-bin/211biaieEN/wgbroker.exe?new+-access+top+search+open+NR+bb95102812, IAiE PAN, sygn. P III 368, IAiE PAN, sygn. P III 348, IAiE PAN, sygn. P III 349, http://katalog.pan.pl/webpac-bin/211biaiePL/wgbroker.exe?new+-access+top+search+open+NR+bb95102812

Language:

eng, pol

Relation:

Fasciculi Archaeologiae Historicae

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Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Instytut Archeologii i Etnologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk

Location of original object:

Library of the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Biblioteka Instytutu Archeologii i Etnologii PAN