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how relics shaped the history of Medieval Europe

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An edition of Holy bones, holy dust (2011)

Holy bones, holy dust

how relics shaped the history of Medieval Europe

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Relics were everywhere in medieval society. Saintly morsels such as bones, hair, teeth, blood, milk, and clothes, and items like the Crown of Thorns were thought to bring the believer closer to the saint, who might intercede with God on his or her behalf. This book presents an illustrated exploration of 1000 years of holy relics across Europe.

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Yale University Press
Language
English
Pages
306

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Subjects

Cult, Christian saints, Relics, History, Relikwieën, Reliker, Historia, Helgonkult, Relics and reliquaries, Saints

Times

To 1500
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Table of Contents

Prologue: the making of a martyr
How the Christian relic emerged
The incorruptible flesh of the martyrs
Creating a Christian landscape
The battle for acceptance
The view from Byzantium
Bishops, magic and relics in the post-Roman world
'A barbarous, fierce and unbelieving nation'
The great consolidator
Hope and desperation in a disordered world
Cults and the rise of anti-semitism
Fervent Christian pilgrims
'The eyes are fed with gold-bedecked reliquaries'
Looting the East
Louis IX and the Sainte-Chapelle
Sacred flesh between death and resurrection
'Christ's recruits ... fight back'
Protectors of il Popolo
The Virgin Mary and the penitent whore
The wondrous blood of Christ
Rescuers and devils
'Of far-off saints, hallowed in sundry lands'
'dead images that ... may not ... help any man of any disease'
Protestantism and the new iconoclasm
Intimations of reality
Reasserting the miraculous
Within the community of the supernatural.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-296) and index.

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Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
235/.2
Library of Congress
BX2333 .F74 2011, BX2333.F74 2011

The Physical Object

Pagination
xv, 306 p., [16] p. plates :
Number of pages
306

Edition Identifiers

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OL25008278M
Internet Archive
holybonesholydus0000free
ISBN 10
0300125712
ISBN 13
9780300125719, 0978300125719
LCCN
2010044321
OCLC/WorldCat
673416435

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OL16121213W

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