Mobile Saints: Relic Circulation, Devotion, and Conflict in the Central Middle Ages

ISBN-13: 9780367705619 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 208 str.

Kate Craig

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Introduction  Part One: Departures  1. The Effects of Forced Relic Movement  2. Liturgical Frameworks for Relic Circulation  Part Two: En Route  3. Relics and Their Companions as Travelers  4. Traveling Relics and Ecclesiastical Competition  5. Lay Responses to Traveling Relics  Part Three: Afterlives  6 Relic Circulation and the Landscape  Conclusion

O autorze

Kate M. Craig is an Assistant Professor at Auburn University, USA. She is a former Fulbright Scholar.