Item Number: 135900 Title: Saints and Sacred Matter: The Cult of Relics in Byzantium and Beyond Author: Hahn, Cynthia ; Holger A. Klein (eds) Price: Not Available ISBN: 9780884024064 Description: Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2015. 28cm., hardcover, 376pp., 157 color, 25 b&w illus. Contents: J. Elsner, Relic, Icon and Architecture - The Material Articulation of the Holy in East Christian Art ; J. Smith, Relics, An Evolving Tradition in Latin Christianity ; R. Boustan, Jewish Veneration of the "Special Dead" in Late Antiquity and Beyond ; N. Khalek, Medieval Muslim Martyrs to the Plague - Venerating the Companions of Muhammad in the Jordan Valley ; P. Miller, Figuring Relics, A Poetics of Enshrinement ; D. Krueger, Liturgical Tikme and Holy Land Reliquaries in Early Byzantium ; A. Yasin, Sacred Installations, The Material Conditions of Relic Collections in Late Antique Churches ; V. Marinis/R. Ousterhout, Relics and the Byzantine Church Building (9th-15th Centuries) ; H. Westermann-Angerhausen, Spolia as Relics? Relics as Spolia? The Meaning and Functions of Spolia in Western Medieval Reliquaries ; C. Hahn, The Making of the Crown of Thorns ; A. Talbot, The Relics of New Saints - Deposition, Transition, and Veneration in Middle and Late Byzantium ; H. Klein, Materiality and the Sacredt - Byzantine Reliquaries and the Rhetoric of Enshrinement ; J. Durand, Byzantium and Beyond, Relics of the Infancy of Christ ; K. Rizvi, The Incarnate Shrine, Shi'ism and the Cult of Kingship in Early Safavid Iran ; A. Cutler, The Relics of Scholarship - On the Production, Reproduction, and Interpretation of Hallowed Remains in Late Antiquity, Byzantium, Early Islam, and the Medieval West.
(Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine Symposia and Colloquia, 6)
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