St. Ursula and the Eleven Thousand Virgins of Cologne
Subtitle: relics, reliquaries and the visual culture of group sanctity in late medieval Europe
By: Scott B. Montgomery.
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 207
ISBN-13: 9783039118526
Subjects: Ursula, -- Saint -- Art; Ursula, -- Saint -- Cult -- Europe; Ursula, -- Saint -- Relics -- Europe; Eleven Thousand Virgins (Legendary saints) in art; Eleven Thousand Virgins (Legendary saints); Christian women saints -- Cult -- Europe; Christian art and symbolism -- Europe -- Medieval, 500-1500; Reliquaries, Gothic; Relics -- Europe
Genres: Art
Other titles: Saint Ursula and the Eleven Thousand Virgins of Cologne
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Heads and tales: envisioning the Eleven Thousand Virgins of Cologne; title: An archaeology of texts and bones: the legend of the Eleven Thousand Virgins; title: Bones and more bones: relics and the spread of the cult; title: Ecclesia sanctarum undecim milum virginum: the Church of the Eleven Thousand Virgins and its decoration; title: The face of sanctity: reliquary busts of the Eleven Thousand Virgins; title: Golden visions: altarpieces with relics; title: The protective mantle: the Holy Virgins as patron saints of Cologne; title: Picturing the pilgrimage: narrative cycles in Cologne; title: A peregrinatious tale: images and narrative cycles beyond the Rhineland; title: Golden bones: the Goldene Kammer of St. Ursula and early modern developments; title: From slight to light: concluding thoughts.