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Relics, Shrines and Pilgrimages - Sanctity in Europe from Late Antiquity (Hardcover)
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Relics, Shrines and Pilgrimages - Sanctity in Europe from Late Antiquity (Hardcover)
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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 the veneration of relics in Europe and how these
objects were often catalysts for the establishment of major
pilgrimage sites that are still in use today. The book features an
international panel of contributors taking a wide-ranging look at
relic worship across Europe, from Late Antiquity until the present
day. They begin with a focus on the role of relics in Jacobean
pilgrimage, before looking at the link between relics and their
shrines more generally. The book then focuses in on two major
issues in the study of relics, the stealing of relics (Furta Sacra)
and their modern-day scientific examination and authentication.
These topics demonstrate not only symbolic importance of relics,
but also their role as physical historical objects in material
religious expression. This is a fascinating collection, featuring
the latest scholarship on relics and pilgrimage across Europe. It
will, therefore, be of great interested to academics working in
Pilgrimage, Religious History, Material Religion and Religious
Studies as well as Anthropology, Archaeology, Art and Cultural
Studies.
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