Treasures of heaven : saints, relics, and devotion in medieval Europe / edited by Martina Bagnoli ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bagnoli, Martina.

Cleveland Museum of Art.

Walters Art Museum (Baltimore, Md.)

British Museum

Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reliquaries, Medieval--Exhibitions.

Reliquaries, Medieval.

Christian art and symbolism--Medieval, 500-1500--Exhibitions.

Christian art and symbolism.

Relics--Europe--Exhibitions.

Relics.

Christian saints--Cult--Europe--Exhibitions.

Christian saints.

Christian saints--Cult.

Europe.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

xviii, 259 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 32 cm

Other Title:

Saints, relics, and devotion in medieval Europe

Place of Publication:

[Cleveland, Ohio] : Cleveland Museum of Art ; Baltimore : Walters Art Museum ; London : The British Museum ; New Haven [Conn.] : Distributed by Yale University Press, [2010]

Contents:

From tomb to altar. The religion of relics in late antiquity and Byzantium / Derek Krueger ; Relics and their veneration / Arnold Angenendt

Gathering the saints. Sacred things and holy bodies: collecting relics from late antiquity to the early Renaissance / Holger A. Klein ; "Non est in toto sanctior orbe locus": collecting relics in early medieval Rome / Guido Cornini

Ritual and performance. Relics, liturgical space, and the theology of the church / Éric Palazzo ; From altar to amulet: relics, portability, and devotion / James Robinson

Matter of faith. The stuff of heaven: materials and craftsmanship in medieval reliquaries / Martina Bagnoli ; "A brilliant resurrection": enamel shrines from relics in Limoges and Cologne, 1100-1230 / Barbara Drake Boehm ; The spectacle of the charismatic body: patrons, artists, and body part reliquaries / Cynthia Hahn

Beyond the Middle Ages. The afterlife of the reliquary / Alexander Nagel.

Notes:

Issued in connection with an exhibition held Oct. 17, 2010-Jan. 17, 2011, the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Feb. 13-May 15, 2011, the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, and June 23-Oct. 9, 2011, the British Museum, London.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.

ISBN:

0300168276

9780911886740

0911886745

9780300168273

OCLC:

601347890

Publisher Number:

99944605436