Publication Date
2015
Publication Place
Washington, D.C. -
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, [2015]
Subject
Relics -- Byzantine Empire, Byzantine Empire -- Religious life and customs
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
No
Manuscript
No
Pages Count
368
Physical Dimensions
29 cm
Library
The Institute for Advanced Study (IAS)
Record ID
3100001~!119423~!4932
Library Location
HS-SS Stacks
Date
2015
Notes
The majority of the chapters in this volume were presented as papers at the 2011 Dumbarton Oaks Symposium "Saints and Sacred Matter: The Cult of Saints and Their Relics in Byzantium and Beyond." The symposium was held in two places, mainly at Dumbartom Oaks and The Walters Art Museum in Balitimore, coinciding with the second U.S. venue of the international loan exhibition Treasures of Heaven: Saints, Relics, and Devotion in Medieval Europe--Page vii., Includes bibliographical references and index.. The majority of the chapters in this volume were presented as papers at the 2011 Dumbarton Oaks Symposium "Saints and Sacred Matter: The Cult of Saints and Their Relics in Byzantium and Beyond." The symposium was held in two places, mainly at Dumbartom Oaks and The Walters Art Museum in Balitimore, coinciding with the second U.S. venue of the international loan exhibition Treasures of Heaven: Saints, Relics, and Devotion in Medieval Europe--Page vii., Includes bibliographical references and index.. 119423. vii, 368 pages : illustrations (mostly color), plans ; 29 cm.
İçindekiler
Introduction / Cynthia Hahn and Holder A. Klein -- Relic, icon, and architecture: the material articulation of the holy in East Christian art / Jaś Elsner -- Relics: an evolving tradition in Latin Christianity / Julia M.H. Smith -- Jewish veneration of the "special dead" in late antiquity and beyond / Ra'anan Boustan -- Medieval Muslim martyrs to the plague: venerating the companions of Muhammad in the Jordan Valley / Nancy Khalek -- Figuring relics: a poetics of enshrinement / Patricia Cox Miller -- Liturgical time and Holy Land reliquaries in Early Byzantium / Derek Krueger -- Sacred installations: the material conditions of relic collections in late antique churches / Ann Marie Yasin -- "Grant us to share a place and lot with them": relics and the Byzantine Church building (9th-15th centuries) / Vasileios Marinis and Robert Ousterhout -- Spolia as relics? Relics as spoils?: the meaning and functions of spolia in Western Medieval reliquaries / Hiltrud Westermann-Angerhausen -- "The sting of death is the thorn, but the circle of the crown is victory over death": the making of the crown of thorns / Cynthia Hahn -- The relics of new saints: deposition, translation, and veneration in Middle and Late Byzantium / Alice-Mary Talbot -- Materiality and the sacred: Byzantine reliquaries and the rhetoric of enshrinement / Holger A. Klein -- Byzantium and beyond: relics of the infancy of Christ / Jannic Durand -- The incarnate shrine: Shi'ism and the cult of kingship in early Safavid Iran / Kishwar Rizvi -- The relics of scholarship: on the production, reproduction, and the interpretation of hallowed remains in late antiquity, Byzantium, early Islam, and the Medieval West / Anthony Cutler.
ISBN
9780884024064, 0884024067
Seri
Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine symposia and colloquia, Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine symposia and colloquia
