Medieval and early modern devotional objects in global perspective : translations of the sacred
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New York
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Palgrave Macmillan
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The new Middle Ages
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Includes bibliographical references
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edited by Elizabeth Robertson and Jennifer Jahner
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Relics and the life story of the Buddha / John S. Strong -- Word as relic in medieval Daoism / Stephen R. Bokenkamp -- The book as a sacred object in private homes in early or medieval India / Gregory Schopen -- Gone to ground: relics and holy wells in medieval and early modern Ireland / Catherine McKenna -- "Cunningly hidden": invisible and forgotten relics in the Romanesque work of art / Kirk Ambrose -- Julian of Norwich's unmediated vision / Elizabeth Robertson -- The past, present, and future in medieval surveys of Roman relics / C. David Benson -- The reformation of the relic: Lydgate's and Milton's Saint Edmund / Katarzyna Rutkowski -- "The tragedy of the handkerchief": objects sacred and profane in Shakespeare's Othello / Richard C. McCoy -- Moriscos and the sacralization of stories in early modern Spain / Mary Elizabeth Perry -- Sacred cloth and veiled body: Guadalupe's tilma and other relic-textiles / Jeanette Favrot Peterson -- From the devil's herb to Saint Thomas's gift: the Christianization of guarini sacred plants in the Jesuit reductions in Paraguay / Andres I. Prieto -- The sacred, the secret, and the ethics of historical interpretation: what I learned from the santos of New Mexico / Claire Farago