Relics, Shrines and Pilgrimages: Sanctity in Europe from Late Antiquity

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of figures
List of tables
Contributors
Introduction: relics, holiness, and devotion
1	Relics as historical objects: overview, methods, and prospects
PART 1 The relics of St James in Europe
	2	Relics and pilgrimages of St James the Greater in France
	3	Keeping the Angevin peace: the hand of St James in England
	4	Roncesvalles as a reliquary on the way to Santiago
	5	Visiting the Apostle Santiago: pilgrimages to Santiago de Compostela in the 16th to 19th centuries
	6	The course and consequences of the reinventio of the relics of St James in 1879
PART 2 Furta sacra
	7	The theft of relics in the Middle Ages: arguments, typology, and legitimacy
	8	Furta sacra in southern Italy in the Middle Ages
	9	The Three Magi: places of worship in Cologne Cathedral
PART 3 The resilience of relics and shrines
	10	Mobile martyrs and forgotten shrines: the translation and domestication of relics in post-reformation England
	11	The life of dry bones: pilgrimage to relic shrines in Soviet Russia
PART 4 Relics and science
	12	The relics of the True Cross: an interdisciplinary approach
	13	The relics of St John in the monastery on the island of Sveti Ivan near Sozopol, Bulgaria: archaeological and scientific research
Index