Paul Koudounaris

Heavenly Bodies

Cult Treasures & Spectacular Saints from the Catacombs

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Suitable for goths, art historians and everyone in between, this book includes images of more than seventy spectacular jeweled skeletons and the stories of dozens more, accompanied by rare archive material.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Thames & Hudson Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 177mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 854g
• ISBN-13: 9780500251959
• ISBN-10: 0500251959
• Artikelnr.: 37743492

Autorenporträt

Paul Koudounaris has a doctorate in Art History from the University of California and has written widely on European ossuaries and charnel houses for both academic and popular journals.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Blessed Bones . 1. Holy Bodies: Relics and the Roman
Catacombs . 2. The Church Triumphant: Constructing the Catacomb Saints . 3.
Communal Property: Jeweled Skeletons and Civic Identity 4. The Mighty Will
Fall: The End of the Reign of the Catacomb Saints Notes, Acknowledgments,
List of Sites, Index