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Relics, Shrines and Pilgrimages: Sanctity in Europe from Late Antiquity book cover

1st Edition

Relics, Shrines and Pilgrimages Sanctity in Europe from Late Antiquity

Edited By Antón M. Pazos Copyright 2020
284 Pages
by Routledge

284 Pages
by Routledge

284 Pages
by Routledge
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Since Late Antiquity, relics have provided a privileged spiritual bond between life and death, between human beings and divinity. Royalty, nobility and clergy all tried to obtain the most prestigious remains of sacred bodies, since they granted influence and fame and allowed the cult around them to be used as a means of sacralization, power and propaganda. This volume traces the development of... Read more

Introduction: Relics, Holiness and Devotion.
Antón M. Pazos

1 Relics as Historical Objects: Overview, Methods and Prospects.
Philippe George

PART 1 The Relics of St James in Europe

2 Relics and Pilgrimages of St James the Greater in France.
Adeline Rucquoi

3 Keeping the Angevin Peace: The Hand of Saint James in England.
Simon Yarrow

4 Roncesvalles as a Reliquary on the Way to Santiago.
José Andrés-Gallego

5 Visiting the Apostle Santiago: Pilgrimages to Santiago de Compostela in the 16th-19th centuries.
Ofelia Rey Castelao

6 The Course and Consequences of the Reinventio of the Relics of St James in 1879.
Antón M. Pazos

PART 2 Furta Sacra

7 The Theft of Relics in the Middle Ages: Arguments, Typology and Legitimacy.
Edina Bozoky

8 Furta Sacra in Southern Italy in the Middle Ages.
Amalia Galdi

9 The Three Magi: Places of Worship in Cologne Cathedral.
Klaus G. Hardering

PART 3 The Resilience of Relics and Shrines

10 Mobile Martyrs and Forgotten Shrines: The Translation and Domestication of Relics in Post-Reformation England.
Alexandra Walsham

11 The life of dry bones: Pilgrimage to relic shrines in Soviet Russia.
Stella Rock

PART 4 Relics and Science

12 The Relics of the True Cross: An Interdisciplinary approach.
Georges Kazan and Thomas Higham

13 St John’s relics from the monastery on Sveti Ivan island near Sozopol, Bulgaria: Archaeological and scientific research.
Kazimir Popkonstantinov and Rossina Kostova

Biography

Antón M. Pazos is currently a member of the Pontifical Committee of Historical Sciences and Vice President of the International Commission for History and Studies of Christianity (CIHEC). He is also Deputy Director of the Instituto de Estudios Gallegos Padre Sarmiento (IEGPS), Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, and a member of the editorial committees of the journals Hispania Sacra and Cuadernos de Estudios Gallegos. At the IEGPS he is the coordinator of a line of research into pilgrimage, which has been the driving force behind several research projects, especially in the organisation of the International Colloquia Compostela.

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