Open AccessTHE HINTON ST. MARY AND FRAMPTON MOSAICS: PROBLEMATIC IDENTIFICATIONS OF CHRISTIAN-PAGAN HYBRID IMAGERY
Author(s) -
Shelby Colling
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
constellations
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2562-0509
DOI - 10.29173/cons29346
Subject(s) - scholarship , meaning (existential) , interpretation (philosophy) , identification (biology) , sociology , epistemology , philosophy , law , political science , linguistics , botany , biology
Despite the frequent interpretation of any Early-Christian-era art that contains both Christian and pagan imagery as being solely Christian in meaning, this paper argues that the identification of these images as being Christian in nature, with the pagan imagery only present as borrowed ideas to support a Christian message, is problematic. By assessing some of the existing scholarship surrounding this topic, I attempt to problematize the assumptions made that lead to these widely-accepted interpretations.