Articles in journals
Du désert au Paradis: Conques et son environnement prémoderne
Ivan FOLETTI, Martin F. LEŠÁK
In Les cahiers de saint-michel de Cuxa, 55, 1 (2024), pp. 97–104. [open-access online]
L’acte d’image ou le regard de l’image (XIe-XIIe siècles): réflexions
à partir du Christ sculpté du tympan de l’abbatiale Sainte-Foy de Conques
Cécile VOYER
In Textimage. Revue d´étude du dialogue texte-image (2023) [open-access online]
Reconsidering “Romanesque” Art Through the Pilgrim’s Body: The Migrating Art Historians Project Five Years Later
Ivan FOLETTI, Martin F. LEŠÁK
In Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture, 8/2 (2022), pp. 43–67 [open-access online]
Dynamics of Medieval Landscape: Measure, Environment, Conversion
Adrien PALLADINO
In Convivium, IX/1 (2022), pp. 13–26 [open-access online]
Transforming a Desert, Claiming the Domain: The Early Medieval Landscape of Conques
Martin F. LEŠÁK
In Convivium, IX/1 (2022), pp. 148–167 [open-access online]
Spaces for Miracles. Constructing Sacred Space through the Body, from Conques to the Mediterranean, and Beyond
Ivan FOLETTI
In Convivium, IX/1 (2022), pp. 168–185 [open-access online]
Sculture e arredi liturgici medievali a Cava de’ Tirreni: restauri, recuperi e nuove acquisizioni
Elisabetta SCIROCCO
In Hortus Artium Medievalium, 27 (2021), pp. 370–386 [open-access online]
“Romanesque” Conques as a Neo-Carolingian Project
Ivan FOLETTI, Adrien PALLADINO, Vincent DEBIAIS, Eric SPARHUBERT, Cécile VOYER
In Convivium, VIII/2 (2021), pp. 168–174 [open-access online]
Articles in collective volumes
Conques. Národní, nebo náboženská památka? [Conques. A National or Religious Monument?]
Ivan FOLETTI, Karolina FOLETTI, Adrien PALLADINO
In Opravdový středověk ? Umění & ideologie v 19. století, Ivan Foletti, Zuzana Urbanová eds, Brno 2024, pp. 37–56. [open-access online]
Objects Evading Interpretation: Conques and Sainte Foy
Adrien PALLADINO
In Entangled Histories at Conques: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on a Unique Site of Medieval Heritage (= Convivium, Supplementum 1/2024), Adrien Palladino ed., pp. 10–16. [open-access online]
The Chevet of Sainte-Foy of Conques and Its Models: Materializing Sanctity and Promotional Strategies in Romanesque Architecture
Éric SPARHUBERT
In Entangled Histories at Conques: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on a Unique Site of Medieval Heritage (= Convivium, Supplementum 1/2024), Adrien Palladino ed., pp. 72–88. [open-access online]
A Translike Object? Composing the Majesty of Sainte Foy and Staging Gender
Kris N. RACANIELLO
In Entangled Histories at Conques: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on a Unique Site of Medieval Heritage (= Convivium, Supplementum 1/2024), Adrien Palladino ed., pp. 102–126. [open-access online]
Localism and Sainte Foy at Conques
Erik THUNØ
In Entangled Histories at Conques: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on a Unique Site of Medieval Heritage (= Convivium, Supplementum 1/2024), Adrien Palladino ed., pp. 128–138. [open-access online]
La Chanson de sainte Foy pour le public d’aujourd’hui : rééditer, traduire, commenter
Valérie FASSEUR
In Entangled Histories at Conques: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on a Unique Site of Medieval Heritage (= Convivium, Supplementum 1/2024), Adrien Palladino ed., pp. 158–172. [open-access online]
Conques Acoustic Analysis: Impulse Response Data & Field Observations
Kris N. RACANIELLO
In Entangled Histories at Conques: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on a Unique Site of Medieval Heritage (= Convivium, Supplementum 1/2024), Adrien Palladino ed., pp. 176–182. [open-access online]
Úvod. Kult (mrtvých) celebrit: Mezi odmítáním, tradicí a kulturní revolucí [Introduction. The Cult of (Dead) Celebrities: Between Rejection, Tradition, and Cultural Revolution]
Ivan FOLETTI
In Smrtí smrt překonat: Relikvie a jejich moc ve středověku, Smrtí smrt překonat: Relikvie a jejich moc ve středověku, Jana Černocká, Ivan Foletti, Adrien Palladino, Katarína Šimová eds, Brno 2023, pp. 11–35.
Tváří v tvář smrti, nebo životu? (8.–12. století) [Facing Death or Facing Life? (8th–12th Centuries)]
Jana ČERNOCKÁ, Ivan FOLETTI
In Smrtí smrt překonat: Relikvie a jejich moc ve středověku, Jana Černocká, Ivan Foletti, Adrien Palladino, Katarína Šimová eds, Brno 2023, pp. 67–102.
Contextualizing Conques, an Introduction
Ivan FOLETTI, Adrien PALLADINO, Kris N. RACANIELLO, Cynthia HAHN, Cécile VOYER
In Contextualizing Conques: Imaginaries, Narratives & Geographies (= Convivium, Supplementum 3/2023), Ivan Foletti, Cynthia Hahn, Kris N. Racaniello, Cécile Voyer, Adrien Palladino eds, pp. 10–18.
The “Iron Man”: Imagining Muslims and Vanishing Objects in the Shrine of Sainte Foy at Conques
Kris N. RACANIELLO
In Contextualizing Conques: Imaginaries, Narratives & Geographies (= Convivium, Supplementum 3/2023), Ivan Foletti, Cynthia Hahn, Kris N. Racaniello, Cécile Voyer, Adrien Palladino eds, pp. 98–119. [open-access online]
Digital Heritage Mapping of Medieval Routes: Retracting Pilgrimage to Conques through the Liber Miraculorum Sanctae Fidis
Sabina ROSENBERGOVÁ
In Contextualizing Conques: Imaginaries, Narratives & Geographies (= Convivium, Supplementum 3/2023), Ivan Foletti, Cynthia Hahn, Kris N. Racaniello, Cécile Voyer, Adrien Palladino eds, pp. 120–133. [open-access online]
The Throne of Wisdom of Beaulieu: The Silver Embodiment of the Triumphant Church
Zuzana FRANTOVÁ
In Contextualizing Conques: Imaginaries, Narratives & Geographies (= Convivium, Supplementum 3/2023), Ivan Foletti, Cynthia Hahn, Kris N. Racaniello, Cécile Voyer, Adrien Palladino eds, pp. 152–171. [open-access online]
The “Glorious Traveler”: St Foy’s Triumphal March from Rodez to Conques or the Liturgical Afterlife of Two Medieval Reliquaries
Martin F. LEŠÁK
In Contextualizing Conques: Imaginaries, Narratives & Geographies (= Convivium, Supplementum 3/2023), Ivan Foletti, Cynthia Hahn, Kris N. Racaniello, Cécile Voyer, Adrien Palladino eds, pp. 42–63. [open-access online]
Byzance à Conques? An Unrealized Dream of “Neo-Byzantine” Architecture in Nineteenth-Century France
Adrien PALLADINO
In Contextualizing Conques: Imaginaries, Narratives & Geographies (= Convivium, Supplementum 3/2023), Ivan Foletti, Cynthia Hahn, Kris N. Racaniello, Cécile Voyer, Adrien Palladino eds, pp. 20–41. [open-access online]
Hranice posvátna [The Boundaries of the Sacred]
Jana ČERNOCKÁ, Ivan FOLETTI
In Poutní umění ve středověku jako tělesný zážitek: Krajna, poutník a poklad, Ivan Foletti, Martin F. Lešák eds, Brno 2022, pp. 97–134. [open-access online]
Poutní umění ve středověku jako tělesný zážitek [Pilgrimage Art in the Middle Ages as a Bodily Experience]
Ivan FOLETTI
In Poutní umění ve středověku jako tělesný zážitek: Krajna, poutník a poklad, Ivan Foletti, Martin F. Lešák eds, Brno 2022, pp. 11–39. [open-access online]
Vynalézání „románského“ Conques: národní dědictví, nebo oslava pravé víry?
[Inventing “Romanesque” Conques: National Heritage or Celebration of True Faith?]
Ivan FOLETTI, Adrien PALLADINO
In Infrastruktury (dějin) umění. Sborník ze VII. sjezdu historiků a historiček umění, A. Bartlová, H. Buddeus eds, Ústí nad Labem 2022, pp. 401–412. [open-access online]
Monographs
Conques across Time: Inventions and Reinventions (9th–21st Centuries)
Ivan FOLETTI, Adrien PALLADINO eds
Rome/Brno: Viella/Masaryk University Press, 2025, ISBN : 979-12-5469-923-2 / 978-80-280-0677-8 [open-access online]
Le Chanson de sainte Foy
Valérie FASSEUR
Geneva: Droz, 2024, ISBN: 978-2-600-06612-9
Booklets for wide audience
Mon nom est Conques. Un guide à la première personne de Soulages à Sainte Foy [open-access online]
Ivan FOLETTI, Adrien PALLADINO
Brno: Masaryk University Press, 2024, ISBN: 978-80-280-0637-2
The guidebook Mon nom est Conques. Un guide à la première personne de Soulages à Sainte Foy completes the trilogy dedicated to unveiling the unique cultural heritage of the village of Conques. Following the thematic focus of the previous two booklets, Sainte Foy révélée and Aux portes de la Jérusalem Céleste, this third volume shifts the perspective from monumental art and relics to the rich narratives woven through the lives of individuals linked to the site´s history. The charming layout of the booklet allows readers to immerse themselves in the stories of those who have contributed to Conques´ identity across centuries. Each chapter presents a 1st person narrative of a particular historical figure interwoven with historical sources, thus inviting readers to explore Conques from several complementary perspectives. Accompanied by rich illustrations by Barbora Satranská, this volume not only captures the essence of individual experiences but also ties back to the overarching themes of devotion, artistic expression, and communal identity essential to understanding Conques. The guide´s creative narrative style aims to resonate with both pilgrims and casual visitors, making the stories of the past alive and relevant for contemporary readers.
Aux portes de la Jérusalem Céleste. Le tympan sculpté de Conques [open-access online]
Ivan FOLETTI, Cécile VOYER
Brno: Masaryk University Press, 2022, ISBN: 978-80-280-0033-2
Aux portes de la Jérusalem Céleste. Le tympan sculpté de Conques [At the Doors of Heavenly Jerusalem: The Sculpted Tympanum of Conques] is the second booklet in French in the short series dedicated to a broad non-academic audience. With more illustrations than the first one, which are the fruit of a photographic campaign on the tympanum realized within the project, this booklet presents the most visible artwork accessible to the visitor’s gaze when arriving in front of the abbey-church: the richly adorned and polychrome tympanum presenting the scene of the Last Judgement. Sculpted at the beginning of the 12th century, the portal is probably amongst the first of its type along the pilgrimage routes. The goal of the booklet is to present to a broad audience what perception the medieval pilgrims could have had of such an incredible artistic object, how they understood these sculptures and their theme, and what effect this liminal imagery could have had on them. It does so by explaining how a complex message of salvation is reinforced by sculpted images together with an elegant Latin poem which runs around and under them, borrowing from a variety of themes and concepts widespread in the broad and elite cultures of the 12th and 13th centuries.
Sainte Foy révélée. La plus ancienne statue médiévale à Conques [open-access online]
Ivan FOLETTI, Adrien PALLADINO
Brno: Masaryk University Press, 2021, ISBN: 978-80-210-9816-9
The booklet Sainte Foy révélée. La plus ancienne statue médiévale à Conques [Sainte Foy Revealed: The Oldest Medieval Statue in Conques] is the first in a series of three booklets in French dedicated to the presentation of various aspects of the cultural heritage of Conques, the abbey church and the treasures in particular, to a broad non-academic audience. This first booklet, richly illustrated with original photographs and illustrations produced in the first year of the project, focuses on the core of the sacred site of Conques and the goal of the pilgrim’s devotion: the golden statue-reliquary of Sainte Foy. This artistic object, which has fascinated pilgrims for centuries, is often presented only as an object of faith or as an artistic bravado; the booklet re-examines it within a network of stories and devotional practices and explains the significance of the reuse of the golden facein providing the iconic potential and authority of a fourth-century emperor to a young female martyr.The goal is thus not only to disseminate the scientific results of the project, but also to make the story of this unique statue known by regular visitors of Conques, be they pilgrims or tourists. Both the format and the style of these booklets are conceived to reach specifically this audience, while at the same time keeping the highest standards for the photographs and illustrations, as well as texts.
Mapping Monasticism
This open-access digital map presents the lands and churches donated to the abbey Conques, from its foundation up to the end of the twelfth century. The map builds upon the research of Michele Luigi Vescovi and was created by two undergraduate students, Jasmin Richardson and Tomas Shannon, at the University of Lincoln (UK), under Vescovi’s supervision. This project was funded by the School of History and Heritage Undergraduate Research Opportunity (2021-22), and its methodological framework and outcomes are presented in the article "Mapping Monasticism: A Digital Approach to the Network of Conques", In Contextualizing Conques: Imaginaries, Narratives & Geographies (= Convivium, Supplementum 3/2023), Ivan Foletti, Cynthia Hahn, Kris N. Racaniello, Cécile Voyer, Adrien Palladino eds, pp. 134-151. This edited volume contains papers from the conference "From Global to Local: Conques as a Crossroads (9th-13th c.)", held within the MSCA-RISE Conques project from 11 to 15 July, 2022, at the Graduate Center, City University of New York.