Relics, Shrines and Pilgrimages

Sanctity in Europe from Late Antiquity
Herausgeber: Pazos, Antón M

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume traces the development of the veneration of relics in Europe and how these objects were often catalysts for the establishment of major pilgrimage sites that are still in use today.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 404g
• ISBN-13: 9781032238036
• ISBN-10: 1032238038
• Artikelnr.: 62953138

Autorenporträt

Antón M. Pazos is currently a member of the Pontifical Committee of Historical Sciences and Vice President of the International Commission for History and Studies of Christianity (CIHEC). He is also Deputy Director of the Instituto de Estudios Gallegos Padre Sarmiento (IEGPS), Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, and a member of the editorial committees of the journals Hispania Sacra and Cuadernos de Estudios Gallegos. At the IEGPS he is the coordinator of a line of research into pilgrimage, which has been the driving force behind several research projects, especially in the organisation of the International Colloquia Compostela.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Relics, Holiness and Devotion.-Antón M. Pazos1 Relics as
Historical Objects: Overview, Methods and Prospects -Philippe George; PART
1 The Relics of St James in Europe; 2 Relics and Pilgrimages of St James
the Greater in France-Adeline Rucquoi; 3 Keeping the Angevin Peace: The
Hand of Saint James in England-Simon Yarrow; 4 Roncesvalles as a Reliquary
on the Way to Santiago-José Andrés-Gallego; 5 Visiting the Apostle
Santiago: Pilgrimages to Santiago de Compostela in the 16th-19th centuries-
Ofelia Rey Castelao; 6 The Course and Consequences of the Reinventio of the
Relics of St James in 1879-Antón M. Pazos; PART 2 Furta Sacra; 7 The Theft
of Relics in the Middle Ages: Arguments, Typology and Legitimacy- Edina
Bozoky; 8 Furta Sacra in Southern Italy in the Middle Ages- Amalia Galdi;
9 The Three Magi: Places of Worship in Cologne Cathedral- Klaus G.
Hardering; PART 3 The Resilience of Relics and Shrines; 10 Mobile Martyrs
and Forgotten Shrines: The Translation and Domestication of Relics in
Post-Reformation England-Alexandra Walsham; 11 The life of dry bones:
Pilgrimage to relic shrines in Soviet Russia-Stella Rock; PART 4 Relics and
Science;12 The Relics of the True Cross: An Interdisciplinary approach-
Georges Kazan and Thomas Higham;13 St John's relics from the monastery on
Sveti Ivan island near Sozopol, Bulgaria: Archaeological and scientific
research-Kazimir Popkonstantinov and Rossina Kostova