Title: Matter of faith : an interdisciplinary study of relics and relic veneration in the medieval period /
Authors: Robinson, James, 1962-; De Beer, Lloyd,; Harnden, Anna,; British Museum.
Year: 2014
Subjects: Relics Europe Congresses.; Reliquaries, Medieval Congresses.; Christian art and symbolism Congresses; Christian saints Cult Europe Congresses.
Abstract: "This publication is the outcome of the conference Matter of Faith, held to accompany the British Museum's exhibition Treasures of Heaven, which brought together over thirty international experts in the field to present new research around the themes of medieval reliquaries and relic veneration. The result is an interdisciplinary study of a thought provoking and controversial topic featuring some of the period's most beautiful and celebrated objects."--
Contents: To be a pilgrim : tactile piety, virtual pilgrimage and the experience of place in Christian pilgrimage / Dee Dyas -- Vestiary signs of pilgrimage in twelfth-century europe / Janet E. Snyder -- St George and Venice : the rise of imperial culture / David M. Perry -- Stones of St Michael : venerating fragments of holy ground in medieval France and Italy / Lucy Donkin -- The saint and the king : relics, reliquaries and late medieval coronation in Aachen and Székesfehérvár / Scott B. Montgomery -- St Ursula's cult and its manifestation in liturgy / Kristin Hoefener -- Picturing narrative and promoting cult : hagiographic illumination at three English cult centres / Kathryn Gerry -- Presentation of relics in late medieval Siena : the Cappella delle Reliquie in Siena Cathedral / Wolfgang Loseries -- A recently discovered Anglo-Carolingian chrismatory / Leslie Webster -- Grist for the mill : a newly discovered bust reliquary from Saint-Flour / Barbara Drake Boehm --^