Treasures of Heaven Saints, Relics, and Devotion in Medieval Europe

Name: Treasures of Heaven Saints, Relics, and Devotion in Medieval Europe
Price: 51.67 USD
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ISBN: 9780300168273

ISBN-10: 0300168276

ISBN-13: 9780300168273

Edition: 2010

Authors: Martina Bagnoli, Holger A. Klein, C. Griffith Mann, James Robinson

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Drawing together a vast array of treasured objects from collections throughout Europe and the United States, this beautifully illustrated volume examines the cult of sacred relics in greater depth and breadth than ever before. Tracing the making of reliquaries from the earliest days of Christianity to the apogee of the practice in the 16th century, the book considers the importance of reliquaries as markers of the divine in both Eastern Christianity (Byzantium) and Western Christendom. The book also tracks the fate of relics and reliquaries in the wake of the Reformation, anti-clerical movements, and the French Revolution. An international group of scholars explores how medieval artists…

Book details

List price: $65.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 12/7/2010
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 278
Size: 10.50" wide x 12.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 4.576
Language: English