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Holy Bones, Holy Dust

Author : Charles Freeman
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300166591
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Holy Bones, Holy Dust written by Charles Freeman and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2011-05-24 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Islam, Christianity and the Realms of the Miraculous

Author : Ian Richard Netton
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748699074
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book Islam, Christianity and the Realms of the Miraculous written by Ian Richard Netton and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-14 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book-length English-language study of Hong Kong horror films.

Strange Beauty

Author : Cynthia Jean Hahn
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271050780
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Strange Beauty written by Cynthia Jean Hahn and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A study of reliquaries as a form of representation in medieval art. Explores how reliquaries stage the importance and meaning of relics using a wide range of artistic means from material and ornament to metaphor and symbolism"--Provided by publisher.

Tracing the Jerusalem Code

Author : Kristin B. Aavitsland
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110636271
Total Pages : 805 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Tracing the Jerusalem Code written by Kristin B. Aavitsland and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-04-19 with total page 805 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the aim to write the history of Christianity in Scandinavia with Jerusalem as a lens, this book investigates the image – or rather the imagination – of Jerusalem in the religious, political, and artistic cultures of Scandinavia through most of the second millennium. Jerusalem is conceived as a code to Christian cultures in Scandinavia. The first volume is dealing with the different notions of Jerusalem in the Middle Ages. Tracing the Jerusalem Code in three volumes Volume 1: The Holy City Christian Cultures in Medieval Scandinavia (ca. 1100–1536) Volume 2: The Chosen People Christian Cultures in Early Modern Scandinavia (1536–ca. 1750) Volume 3: The Promised Land Christian Cultures in Modern Scandinavia (ca. 1750–ca. 1920)

The Holy Land in Observant Franciscan Texts (c. 1480–1650)

Author : Marianne P. Ritsema van Eck
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004410325
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book The Holy Land in Observant Franciscan Texts (c. 1480–1650) written by Marianne P. Ritsema van Eck and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-09-16 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Holy Land in Observant Franciscan Texts (c. 1480–1650): Theology, Travel, and Territoriality Marianne P. Ritsema van Eck charts the development of a heterogeneous but recognizably Observant Franciscan literature about the Holy Land.

Joseph Smith's Gold Plates

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197676529
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (976 download)

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Download or read book Joseph Smith's Gold Plates written by and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-09 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renowned historian Richard Lyman Bushman presents a vibrant history of the objects that gave birth to a new religion. According to Joseph Smith, in September of 1823 an angel appeared to him and directed him to a hill near his home. Buried there Smith found a box containing a stack of thin metal sheets, gold in color, about six inches wide, eight inches long, piled six or so inches high, bound together by large rings, and covered with what appeared to be ancient engravings. Exactly four years later, the angel allowed Smith to take the plates and instructed him to translate them into English. When the text was published, a new religion was born. The plates have had a long and active life, and the question of their reality has hovered over them from the beginning. Months before the Book of Mormon was published, newspapers began reporting on the discovery of a "Golden Bible." Within a few years over a hundred articles had appeared. Critics denounced Smith as a charlatan for claiming to have a wondrous object that he refused to show, while believers countered by pointing to witnesses who said they saw the plates. Two hundred years later the mystery of the gold plates remains. In this book renowned historian of Mormonism Richard Lyman Bushman offers a cultural history of the gold plates. Bushman examines how the plates have been imagined by both believers and critics--and by treasure-seekers, novelists, artists, scholars, and others--from Smith's first encounter with them to the present. Why have they been remembered, and how have they been used? And why do they remain objects of fascination to this day? By examining these questions, Bushman sheds new light on Mormon history and on the role of enchantment in the modern world.

Treasures of Heaven

Author : Martina Bagnoli
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780714123301
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (233 download)

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Download or read book Treasures of Heaven written by Martina Bagnoli and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Keynote A magnificent study of the beautifully crafted Medieval reliquaries that enshrined holy relics, and their wider historical, cultural, political and religious context Sales points Published in conjunction with Walters Art Museum and the Cleveland Museum of Art to accompany a major touring exhibition, at the British Museum 23 June 9 October 2011 No equivalent book on this fascinating subject An important reference work drawing on the latest scholarship, which will be of value far beyond the exhibition Description Drawing on three major museum holdings as well as featuring iconic pieces from other international public and private collections, this richly illustrated book looks at the phenomenon of holy relics in the Middle Ages. Thematic essays and object entries by leading scholars trace the history and development of the cult of relics, from its beginnings in late Roman funerary practices to its rise in both the Byzantine East and the West. Contributors Derek Krueger, Eric Palazzo, Arnoldt Angenendt, Martina Bagnoli, Holger A. Klein, Barbara Boehm, Guido Cornini, Cynthia Hahn, James Robinson, Alexander Nagel, C. Griffith Mann

African American Religions, 1500–2000

Author : Sylvester A. Johnson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521198534
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (211 download)

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Download or read book African American Religions, 1500–2000 written by Sylvester A. Johnson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-08-06 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rich account of the long history of Black religion from the dawn of Western colonialism to the rise of the national security paradigm.

A Voice from Lebanon, with the life and travels of Assaad Y. Kayat. [With a portrait.]

Author : Assaad Y. Kayat
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book A Voice from Lebanon, with the life and travels of Assaad Y. Kayat. [With a portrait.] written by Assaad Y. Kayat and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The baptist Magazine

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 838 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The baptist Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 838 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Eucharistic Adoration after Vatican II

Author : Edward Foley
Publisher : Liturgical Press
ISBN 13 : 0814644694
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (146 download)

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Download or read book Eucharistic Adoration after Vatican II written by Edward Foley and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2022-08-15 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There were radical changes in the Order of Mass promulgated by Pope Paul VI in 1969. Beyond the use of the vernacular, these included a more dialogic format of the Mass, the transformation of the offertory rite to a preparation of gifts, a complete revision of the lectionary, new eucharistic prayers, and communion under both forms. In Eucharistic Adoration after Vatican II, Edward Foley examines the relationship between Vatican II, liturgical prayer, and contemporary eucharistic adoration and devotions.

Dante’s Bones

Author : Guy P. Raffa
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674980832
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)

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Download or read book Dante’s Bones written by Guy P. Raffa and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-12 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A richly detailed graveyard history of the Florentine poet whose dead body shaped Italy from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance to the Risorgimento, World War I, and Mussolini’s fascist dictatorship. Dante, whose Divine Comedy gave the world its most vividly imagined story of the afterlife, endured an extraordinary afterlife of his own. Exiled in death as in life, the Florentine poet has hardly rested in peace over the centuries. Like a saint’s relics, his bones have been stolen, recovered, reburied, exhumed, examined, and, above all, worshiped. Actors in this graveyard history range from Lorenzo de’ Medici, Michelangelo, and Pope Leo X to the Franciscan friar who hid the bones, the stone mason who accidentally discovered them, and the opportunistic sculptor who accomplished what princes, popes, and politicians could not: delivering to Florence a precious relic of the native son it had banished. In Dante’s Bones, Guy Raffa narrates for the first time the complete course of the poet’s hereafter, from his death and burial in Ravenna in 1321 to a computer-generated reconstruction of his face in 2006. Dante’s posthumous adventures are inextricably tied to major historical events in Italy and its relationship to the wider world. Dante grew in stature as the contested portion of his body diminished in size from skeleton to bones, fragments, and finally dust: During the Renaissance, a political and literary hero in Florence; in the nineteenth century, the ancestral father and prophet of Italy; a nationalist symbol under fascism and amid two world wars; and finally the global icon we know today.

Travel and Travail

Author : Patricia Akhimie
Publisher : University of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 149621031X
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book Travel and Travail written by Patricia Akhimie and published by University of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2019-01-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular English travel guides from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries asserted that women who wandered too far afield were invariably suspicious, dishonest, and unchaste. As the essays in Travel and Travail reveal, however, early modern women did travel, often quite extensively, with no diminution of their moral fiber. Female travelers were also frequently represented on the English stage and in other creative works, both as a reproach to the ban on female travel and as a reflection of historical women’s travel, whether intentional or not. Travel and Travail conclusively refutes the notion of female travel in the early modern era as “an absent presence.” The first part of the volume offers analyses of female travelers (often recently widowed or accompanied by their husbands), the practicalities of female travel, and how women were thought to experience foreign places. The second part turns to literature, including discussions of roving women in Shakespeare, Margaret Cavendish, and Thomas Heywood. Whether historical actors or fictional characters, women figured in the wider world of the global Renaissance, not simply in the hearth and home.

Living with the Dead in the Middle Ages

Author : Patrick J. Geary
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501721631
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Living with the Dead in the Middle Ages written by Patrick J. Geary and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-05 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whereas modern societies tend to banish the dead from the world of the living, medieval men and women accorded them a vital role in the community. The saints counted most prominently as potential intercessors before God, but the ordinary dead as well were called upon to aid the living, and even to participate in the negotiation of political disputes. In this book, the distinguished medievalist Patrick J. Geary shows how exploring the complex relations between the living and dead can broaden our understanding of the political, economic, and cultural history of medieval Europe. Geary has brought together for this volume twelve of his most influential essays. They address such topics as the development of saints' cults and of the concept of sacred space; the integration of saints' cults into the lives of ordinary people; patterns of relic circulation; and the role of the dead in negotiating the claims and counterclaims of various interest groups. Also included are two case studies of communities that enlisted new patron saints to solve their problems. Throughout, Geary demonstrates that, by reading actions, artifacts, and rituals on an equal footing with texts, we can better grasp the otherness of past societies.

The Stolen Bones of St. John of Matha

Author : A. Katie Harris
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271096209
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book The Stolen Bones of St. John of Matha written by A. Katie Harris and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Investigates an incident of holy relic theft in Rome, the lengthy legal case that followed it, and the larger questions that surrounded saints' remains in seventeenth-century Catholic Europe"--

The Nomadic Object

Author : Christine Göttler
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004354506
Total Pages : 649 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book The Nomadic Object written by Christine Göttler and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-11-06 with total page 649 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A team of renowned scholars examines how sacred art and artefacts responded to the demands of a world stage in the age of reform, demonstrating the significance of religious systems for a global art history.

War and Religion [3 volumes]

Author : Jeffrey M. Shaw Ph.D.
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1909 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book War and Religion [3 volumes] written by Jeffrey M. Shaw Ph.D. and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-03-27 with total page 1909 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This three-volume reference provides a complete guide for readers investigating the crucial interplay between war and religion from ancient times until today, enabling a deeper understanding of the role of religious wars across cultures. Containing some 500 entries covering the interaction between war and religion from ancient times, the three-volume War and Religion: An Encyclopedia of Faith and Conflict provides students with an invaluable reference source for examining two of the most important phenomena impacting society today. This all-inclusive reference work will serve readers researching specific religious traditions, historical eras, wars, battles, or influential individuals across all time periods. The A–Z entries document ancient events and movements such as the First Crusade that began at the end of the 10th century as well as modern-day developments like ISIS and Al Qaeda. Subtopics throughout the encyclopedia include religious and military leaders or other key people, ideas, and weapons, and comprehensive examinations of each of the major religious traditions' views on war and violence are presented. The work also includes dozens of primary source documents—each introduced by a headnote—that enable readers to go directly to the source of information and better grasp its historical significance. The in-depth content of this set benefits high school and college students as well as scholars and general readers.