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Item Number: 130411
Title: Matter of Faith: An Interdisciplinary Study of Relics and Relic Veneration in the Medieval Period
Author: Robinson, James (et al)
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9780861591954
Description: London: British Museum Press, 2014. 30cm., hardcover, 208pp., 250 illus.

Contents: D. Dyas, To Be a Pilgrim - Tactile Piety, Virtual Pilgrimate and the Experience of Place in Christian Pilgrimage ; J. Snyder, Vestiary Signs of Pilgrimate in 12th Century Europe ; D. Perry, St. George and Venice - The Rise of Imperial Culture ; L. Donkin, Stones of St. Michael - Venerating Fragments of Holy Ground in Medieval France and Italy ; S. Montgomery, The Saint and the King - Relics, Reliquaries and Late Medieval Coronation in Aachen and Szekesfehervar ; K. Hoefener, St. Ursula's Cult and its Manifestation in Liturgy ; K. Gerry, Picturing Narrative and Promoting Cult - Hagiographic Illumination at Three English Cult Centres ; W. Loseries, Presentation of Relics in Late Medieval Siena - The Cappella delle Reliquie in Siena Cathedral ; L. Webster, A Recently Discovered Anglo-Carolingian Chrismatory ; B. Boehm, Grist for the Mill - A Newly Discovered Bust Reliquary from Saint-Flour ; E. Antoine-König, New Dating of the Limoges Reliquaries of the Stigmatization of St. Francis ; S. Gerevini, Christus crystallus - Rock Crystal, Theology and Materiality in the Medieval West ; M. Bagnoli, Dressing the Relics - Some Thoughts on the Custom of Relic Wrapping in Medieval Christianity ; S. Blick, Common Ground - Reliquaries and the Lower Classes in Late Medieval Europe ; G. Gates (et al), A Shrine Reunited? - The Collaborative, Scientific Study of Two Reliquary Panels from the Walters Art Museum and the British Museum ; M. von Bellegem, L. de Beer, The Construction and Conservation History of the Hildesheim Portable Altar ; S. Paine, New Discoveries Related to the Portable Altar of Countess Gertrude ; S. Riches, Relics of Gender Identity - Interpreting a Reliquary of a Follower of St. Ursula ; V. Olson, Embodying the Saint - Mystical Visions, Maria Lactans and the Miracle of Mary's Milk ; E. Inglis, Art as Evidence in Medieval Relic Disputes - Three Cases from 15th-century France ; M. Gray, Contested Relics - Winefride and the Saints of the Atlantic Churches ; J. Warren, The Horn of St Hubert in the Wallace Collection ; A. de Fruijjf, Preserved Miraculously - Relics in the Old Catholic St Gertrude's Cathedral in Utrecht, Netherlands ; A. de Meo Arbore, Change and Continuity in the Display of Relics in England in the 16th and 17th Centuries - The English Catholic Community in a Broader Context ; S. Hooper, Bodies, Artefacts and Images - A Cross-cultural Theory of Relics. (British Museum Research Publication, 195)

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