Relics and remains
By: edited by Alexandra Walsham
Contributors: Oxford Journals (Firm)
Series: Past and present supplements -- suppl. 5, 2010; Past and present supplements -- v. 5.
Publisher: Oxford Journals
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 355
ISBN-13: 9780199600588
Subjects: Kultgegenstand; Kollektives Geda chtnis; Reliquaries; Reliquienkult; Christian saints; Reliquie; Saints; Congresses; Relics; Cult; History
Other titles: Past & present.
Notes: "This collection of essays arose out of a conference held at the University of Exeter in September 2008"--P. [8], acknowledgements.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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