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The Beginnings of the Cult of Relics (Hardcover)
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The Beginnings of the Cult of Relics (Hardcover)
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Christians have often admired and venerated the martyrs who died
for their faith, but for a long time thought that the bodies of
martyrs should remain undisturbed in their graves. Initially, the
Christian attitude towards the bones of the dead, saint or not, was
that of respectful distance. The Beginnings of the Cult of Relics
examines how this attitude changed in the mid-fourth century.
Robert Wisniewski investigates how Christians began to believe in
the power of relics, first over demons, then over physical diseases
and enemies. He considers how the faithful sought to reveal hidden
knowledge at the tombs of saints and why they buried the dead close
to them. An essential element of this new belief was a strong
conviction that the power of relics was transferred in a physical
way and so the following chapters study relics as material objects.
Wisniewski analyses how contact with relics operated and how close
it was. Did people touch, kiss, or look at the very bones, or just
at tombs and reliquaries which contained them? When did the custom
of dividing relics begin? Finally, the book deals with discussions
and polemics concerning relics, and attempts to find out the
strength of the opposition which this new phenomenon had to face,
both within and outside Christianity, on its way to become an
essential element of medieval religiosity.
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