This collection of essays explores relics as religious and cultural phenomena. It considers the ways in which human remains and material objects have become the focus of worship, celebrity, curiosity, and conflict in a range of eras and cultures stretching from antiquity to the twenty-first century.
This collection of essays explores relics as religious and cultural phenomena. It considers the ways in which human remains and material objects have become the focus of worship, celebrity, curiosity, and conflict in a range of eras and cultures stretching from antiquity to the twenty-first century.
* 1: Alexandra Walsham: Introduction: Relics and Remains * 2: Robert Morkot: Divine of Body: The Remains of Egyptian Kings - Preservation, Reverence, and Memory in a World without Relics * 3: Robin Osborne: Relics and Remains in an Ancient Greek World full of Anthropomorphic Gods * 4: Julia M. H. Smith: Rulers and Relics c.750-c.950: Treasure on Earth, Treasure in Heaven * 5: Josef W. Meri: Relics of Piety and Power in Medieval Islam * 6: Alexandra Walsham: Skeletons in the Cupboard: Relics after the English Reformation * 7: Ulinka Rublack: Grapho-Relics: Lutheranism and the Materialization of the World * 8: Howard Louthan: Tongues, Toes, and Bones: Remembering Saints in Early Modern Bohemia * 9: John S. Strong: 'The Devil was in that Little Bone': The Portuguese Capture and Destruction of the Buddha's Tooth-Relic, Goa, 1516 * 10: Paul Gillingham: That Strange Business of Memory: Relic Forgert in Latin America * 11: Alan Knight: The Several Legs of Santa Anna: A Saga of Secular Relics * 12: Adam Yuet Chau: Mao's Travelling Mangoes: Food as Relic in Revolutionary China * 13: James Mark: What Remains? Anti-Communism, Forensic Archaeology, and the Retelling of the National Past in Lithuania and Romania * 14: Daniel Branch: The Search for the Remains of Dedan Kimathi: The Politics of Death and Memoralization in Post-Colonial Kenya * 15: Zoe Waxman: Testimonies as Sacred Texts: The Sanctification of Holocaust Writing
* 1: Alexandra Walsham: Introduction: Relics and Remains * 2: Robert Morkot: Divine of Body: The Remains of Egyptian Kings - Preservation, Reverence, and Memory in a World without Relics * 3: Robin Osborne: Relics and Remains in an Ancient Greek World full of Anthropomorphic Gods * 4: Julia M. H. Smith: Rulers and Relics c.750-c.950: Treasure on Earth, Treasure in Heaven * 5: Josef W. Meri: Relics of Piety and Power in Medieval Islam * 6: Alexandra Walsham: Skeletons in the Cupboard: Relics after the English Reformation * 7: Ulinka Rublack: Grapho-Relics: Lutheranism and the Materialization of the World * 8: Howard Louthan: Tongues, Toes, and Bones: Remembering Saints in Early Modern Bohemia * 9: John S. Strong: 'The Devil was in that Little Bone': The Portuguese Capture and Destruction of the Buddha's Tooth-Relic, Goa, 1516 * 10: Paul Gillingham: That Strange Business of Memory: Relic Forgert in Latin America * 11: Alan Knight: The Several Legs of Santa Anna: A Saga of Secular Relics * 12: Adam Yuet Chau: Mao's Travelling Mangoes: Food as Relic in Revolutionary China * 13: James Mark: What Remains? Anti-Communism, Forensic Archaeology, and the Retelling of the National Past in Lithuania and Romania * 14: Daniel Branch: The Search for the Remains of Dedan Kimathi: The Politics of Death and Memoralization in Post-Colonial Kenya * 15: Zoe Waxman: Testimonies as Sacred Texts: The Sanctification of Holocaust Writing
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