عنوان

Relics and remains /

0199600589

9780199600588

b784636

Relics and remains /

[Book]

edited by Alexandra Walsham.

Oxford :

Oxford Journals,

2010.

355 pages :

illustrations ;

22 cm.

Past and present supplements ;

suppl. 5, 2010

"This collection of essays arose out of a conference held at the University of Exeter in September 2008"--Page [8], acknowledgements.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : Relics and remains / Alexandra Walsham -- Divine of body : the remains of Egyptian kings -- preservation, reverence, and memory in a world without relics / Robert Morkot -- Relics and remains in an ancient Greek world full of anthropomorphic gods / Robin Osborne -- Rulers and relics c.750-c.950 : treasure on earth, treasure in heaven / Julia M.H. Smith -- Relics of piety and power in medieval Islam / Josef W. Meri -- Skeletons in the cupboard : relics after the English Reformation / Alexandra Walsham -- Grapho-relics : Lutheranism and the materialization of the word / Ulinka Rublack -- Tongues, toes, and bones : remembering saints in early modern Bohemia / Howard Louthan -- 'The devil was in that little bone' : the Portuguese capture and destruction of the Buddha's tooth-relic, Goa, 1516 / John S. Strong -- That strange business of memory : relic forgery in Latin America / Paul Gillingham -- The several legs of Santa Anna : a saga of secular relics / Alan Knight -- Mao's travelling mangoes : food as relic in revolutionary China / Adam Yuet Chau -- What remains? Anti-communism, forensic archaeology, and the retelling of the national past in Lithuania and Romania / James Mark -- The search for the remains of Dedan Kimathi : the politics of death and memoralization in post-colonial Kenya / Daniel Branch -- Testimonies as sacred texts : the sanctification of holocaust writing / Zoë Waxman.

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Past & present.

0031-2746

Relics and remains.

Christian saints-- Cult, Congresses.

Relics-- History, Congresses.

Reliquaries, Congresses.

Saints-- Cult, Congresses.

Christian saints-- Cult.

Kollektives Gedächtnis

Kultgegenstand

Relics.

Reliquaries.

Reliquie

Reliquie.

Reliquienkult

Reliquienkult.

Saints-- Cult.

Exeter 2008

7

247:930.85(082)

291.336(091)(082)

Walsham, Alexandra,1966-

Oxford Journals (Firm)

20201206224426.0

[Book]

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