Leylim Erenel

‘Ter eere van den heilighen bloede’: The Relic of the Holy Blood and the Visual Culture of Late Medieval Bruges

Supervisor: Professor Susie Nash
Advisor: Professor Alixe Bovey

My research explores a variety of themes associated with the Holy Blood relic of Bruges, which has been housed in St Basil’s Chapel in the heart of the city since at least the 1250s. I am primarily focused on objects that have been produced in the town in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, whose making is closely linked to – and in many cases, prompted by – the presence of the relic in Bruges, as well as the social organisations and ritual practices that have developed in response to it.