Strange Beauty: Issues in the Making and Meaning of Reliquaries, 400-circa 1204
Cynthia Hahn offers a refreshing new synthesis on the topic of medieval reliquaries. She shows that they are a form of representation that mediates religious experience of relics as well as their political and institutional meanings. Engaging both primary sources and current theoretical writings, Hahn's text will be of crucial interest to a broader readership concerned with the material embodiment of the sacred and strategies of representation. --Thomas Dale, University of Wisconsin-Madison--This text refers to theHardcoveredition.