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Mobile Saints - Relic Circulation, Devotion, and Conflict in the Central Middle Ages (Paperback)
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Mobile Saints - Relic Circulation, Devotion, and Conflict in the Central Middle Ages (Paperback)
Series: Studies in Medieval History and Culture
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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
have received relatively little attention. Yet the act of taking a
medieval relic from its "home," even for a short time, had the
power to transform the object, the people it encountered, and the
landscape it traveled through. Using hagiographical and liturgical
texts, this study reveals both the opportunities and tensions
associated with these movements: circulating relics extended the
power of the saint into the wider world, but could also provoke
public displays of competition, mockery, and resistance. By
contextualizing these effects within the discourses and practices
that surrounded traveling relics, Mobile Saints emphasizes the
complexities of the central medieval cult of relics and its
participants, while speaking to broader questions about the role of
movement in negotiating the relationships between sacred objects,
space, and people.
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