Donkin, Lucy E G

In 1519, earth from the Campo Santo Teutonico next to St Peter’s in Rome was spread over the extra-mural cemetery in the Saxon town of Annaberg. This article asks how the reception of the soil was shaped by the local community and landscape at a time of religious change. It demonstrates the potential for both positive and negative views, arguing that these were informed not only by traditional religiosity and reform ideas, but also by the distinctive visual and material culture of a silver mining community. In this way, it offers new perspectives on the transalpine connections of the Campo Santo; the role of the substance of the landscape in creating and criticising links with the Roman Church at the start of the Reformation; and the relationship between materialities of religion and the environment

Earth and Ore: Materialising Transalpine Relations on the Eve of the Reformation

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