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Author:   E. Robertson ,  Kenneth A. Loparo
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.475kg
ISBN:  

9780230616042

ISBN 10:   0230616046
Pages:   259
Publication Date:   26 November 2010
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction; E.Robertson & J.Jahner Relics and Life Story of the Buddha; J.S.Strong Word as Relic in Medieval Daoism; S.R.Bokenkamp The Book as a Sacred Object in Private Homes in Early or Medieval India; G.Schopen Gone to Ground: Relics and Holy Wells in Medieval and Early Modern Ireland; C.McKenna 'Cunningly hidden': Invisible and Forgotten Relics in the Romanesque Work of Art; K.Ambrose Julian of Norwich's Unmediated Vision; E.Robertson The Past, Present, and Future in Medieval Surveys of Roman Relics; C.D.Benson The Reformation of the Relic: Lydgate's and Milton's Saint Edmund; K.Rutkowski 'The Tragedy of the Handkerchief': Objects Sacred and Profane in Shakespeare's Othello; R.C.McCoy Moriscos and the Desacralization of Stories in Early Modern Spain; M.E.Perry Sacred Cloth and Veiled Body: Guadalupe's Tilma and Other Relic Textiles; J.Favrot Peterson From the Devil's Herb to Saint Thomas's Gift: The Christianization of Guaraní Sacred Plants in the Jesuit Reductions in Paraguay; A.I.Prieto The Sacred, the Secret, and the Ethics of Historical Interpretation: What I Learned From the Santos of New Mexico; C.Farago Afterword: Persons and Things; P.Stallybrass

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ELIZABETH ROBERTSON is Professor of English at the University of Colorado, Boulder, USA.   JENNIFER JAHNER is a Doctoral Candidate in Medieval English Literature at the University of Pennsylvania, USA.

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