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Theodolinda: the fifteenth-century recollection of a Lombard Queen

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 March 2016

Andrew Martindale
Andrew Martindale*
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University of East Anglia
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This paper arises out of an art historian’s interest in the frescoes of ‘Queen Theodolinda’s chapel’ in the cathedral of Monza, executed c. 1444 by the brothers Zavattari. Although these paintings have aroused intense regional interest, outside Italy they are possibly less well-known than they deserve to be. They call forth the questions of how and why Theodolinda – a ‘barbarian’ queen who lived in the late sixth and early seventh centuries – could have come to assume such a central role for the church of Monza. The interpretation and re-interpretation of her story – perhaps the projection of the present back into the past? – offers an appropriate topic for the theme of ‘The Church Retrospective’.

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Studies in Church History , Volume 33: The Church Retrospective , 1997 , pp. 195 - 225
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Copyright © Ecclesiastical History Society 1997

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