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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Nicholas of Cusa and the Hosts of Andechs | |
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| The Periodization of Holy Matter | |
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| Materiality | |
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| Beyond �the Body� | |
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| Matter as Paradox | |
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| Visual Matter | |
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| Image Theory | |
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| The Materiality of Images: Two Theoretical Considerations | |
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| The Materiality of Images: Examples | |
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| Viewer Response | |
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| Materiality as Self-Referential | |
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| Material Iconography | |
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| The Material in the Visionary | |
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| Living Images | |
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| The Cross | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Power of Objects | |
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| Two Caveats | |
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| Definitions and Examples: Bodily Relics and Contact Relics | |
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| Definitions and Examples: Dauerwunder | |
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| Definitions and Examples: Sacramentals and Prodigies | |
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| The Theology of Holy Matter: Relics, Sacramentals, and Dauerwunder | |
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| Dissident and Heretical Critiques | |
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| The Example of Johannes Bremer | |
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| Holy Matter in Social Context | |
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| The Case of Wilsnack | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Holy Pieces | |
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| Parts, Wholes, and Triumph over Decay | |
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| Theologians and the Problem of Putrefaction | |
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| The Contradiction: Fragmentation as Opportunity | |
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| A Comparison with Jewish Practice | |
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| The Iconography of Parts and Wholes: The Example of the Side Wound | |
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| Concomitance as Theory and Habit of Mind | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Matter and Miracles | |
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| Three Examples | |
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| Elite and Popular: Again a Caveat | |
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| Theories of Miracle as a Way of Accessing Assumptions about Matter | |
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| The Historiography of Matter | |
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| Conceptions of Matter and Change | |
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| Change as Threat and Opportunity: A Reprise | |
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| Reducing Change to Appearance | |
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| Explaining Miracles by Limiting Change | |
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| Using Physiological Theories to Contain Miracles | |
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| Matter as Dynamic Substratum | |
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| Holy Matter as Triumph over Matter | |
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| Tht Materiality of Creation | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Reinterpreting the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries | |
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| Jews, Muslims, and Christians | |
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| Theories, Medieval and Modern | |
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| Again the Paradox | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |