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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 366
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Ancient Reliques
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 366
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Ancient Reliques
Author: James StorerPublisher:
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 218
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Reliques of Ancient English Poetry
Author: Thomas PercyPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 580
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Reliques of Ancient English Poetry ... Fourth Edition. Edited by Thomas Percy, Fellow of St. John's College, Oxford, Nephew of Bishop Percy
Author: Thomas PercyPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 342
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Ancient reliques; or, Delineations of monastic, castellated, & domestic architecture
Author: Ancient relicsPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 220
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Holy Bones, Holy Dust
Author: Charles FreemanPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300166591
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
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.
Notices of an Enamelled Chalice and of Other Ancient Reliques, Found on the Site of Rusper Priory
Author: Albert WayPublisher:
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Category : Religious articles
Languages : en
Pages : 20
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Searching for the Oldest Stars
Author: Anna FrebelPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691197199
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
A leading astronomer takes readers behind the scenes of the thrilling science of stellar archaeology and explains how sections of the night sky are "excavated" in the hunt for extremely rare, 13-billion-year-old relic stars and how this quest reveals tantalizing new details about the origins and evolution of the cosmos.
Strange Beauty
Author: Cynthia Jean HahnPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271050780
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
"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.
Ancient Reliques
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