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Николай Маньякуция и живые иконы в Риме XII века
The article discusses the famous icon known as Lateran Acheropita, the image of Christ not created by man. It is placed on the altar of the papal private chapel, the Sancta Sanctorum, and possesses a peculiar importance since at least the mid VIIIth century. This palladium of a city pretending to be the capital of the Christian world participated to several rituals and especially to a nocturne August procession of the Assumption feast, when Christ symbolically met his Mother. It also became subject of reflection of an intellectual, the Lateran canon Nicolas Maniacutia, who, around 1140, delivered a sermon, a curious document that allows us to compare discursive and visual practices of medieval Christians towards venerated images. The article ends with a full commented translation of the sermon.