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: 2010
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 207
ISBN-13: 9783039118526
Other titles: Saint Ursula and the Eleven Thousand Virgins of Cologne
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.  [185]-200) and index.
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.