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Holy Bones, Holy Dust - How Relics Shaped the History of Medieval Europe (Paperback)
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Holy Bones, Holy Dust - How Relics Shaped the History of Medieval Europe (Paperback)
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A richly textured history spanning a thousand years of holy relics
across Europe Relics were everywhere in medieval society. Saintly
morsels such as bones, hair, teeth, blood, milk, and clothes, and
items like the Crown of Thorns, coveted by Louis IX of France, were
thought to bring the believer closer to the saint, who might
intercede with God on his or her behalf. In the first comprehensive
history in English of the rise of relic cults, Charles Freeman
takes readers on a vivid, fast-paced journey from Constantinople to
the northern Isles of Scotland over the course of a millennium. In
Holy Bones, Holy Dust, Freeman illustrates that the pervasiveness
and variety of relics answered very specific needs of ordinary
people across a darkened Europe under threat of political
upheavals, disease, and hellfire. But relics were not only
venerated-they were traded, collected, lost, stolen, duplicated,
and destroyed. They were bargaining chips, good business and good
propaganda, politically appropriated across Europe, and even used
to wield military power. Freeman examines an expansive array of
relics, showing how the mania for these objects deepens our
understanding of the medieval world and why these relics continue
to capture our imagination.
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