1st Edition
Mobile Saints Relic Circulation, Devotion, and Conflict in the Central Middle Ages
By Kate Craig
Copyright 2021
224 Pages
4 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
224 Pages
4 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
224 Pages
4 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Mobile Saints examines the central medieval (ca. 950–1150 CE) practice of removing saints’ relics from rural monasteries in order to take them on out-and-back journeys, particularly within northern France and the Low Countries. Though the permanent displacements of relics—translations— have long been understood as politically and culturally significant activities, these temporary circulations... Read more
Introduction
Part One: Departures
1. The Effects of Forced Relic Movement
2. Liturgical Frameworks for Relic Circulation
Part Two: En Route
3. Relics and Their Companions as Travelers
4. Traveling Relics and Ecclesiastical Competition
5. Lay Responses to Traveling Relics
Part Three: Afterlives
6 Relic Circulation and the Landscape
Conclusion
Biography
Kate M. Craig is an Assistant Professor at Auburn University, USA. She is a former Fulbright Scholar.
