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Author:   Scott B. Montgomery
Publisher:   Verlag Peter Lang
Imprint:   Verlag Peter Lang
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.00cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.00cm
Weight:   0.380kg
ISBN:  

9783039118526

ISBN 10:   3039118528
Pages:   208
Publication Date:   30 December 2009
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Contents: Heads and Tales: Envisioning the Eleven Thousand Virgins of Cologne – An Archaeology of Texts and Bones: The Legend of the Eleven Thousand Virgins – Bones and More Bones: Relics and the Spread of the Cult – Ecclesia sanctarum undecim milum virginum: The Church of the Eleven Thousand Virgins and its Decoration – The Face of Sanctity: Reliquary Busts of the Eleven Thousand Virgins – Golden Visions: Altarpieces with Relics – The Protective Mantle: The Holy Virgins as Patron Saints of Cologne – Picturing the Pilgrimage: Narrative Cycles in Cologne – A Peregrinatious Tale: Images and Narrative Cycles Beyond the Rhineland – Golden Bones: The Goldene Kammer of St. Ursula and Early Modern Developments – From Slight to Light: Concluding Thoughts.

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The Author: Scott B. Montgomery is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Denver. He received his doctorate in Art History from Rutgers University in 1996 with a dissertation on «The Use and Perception of Reliquary Busts in the Late Middle Ages». He has co-edited two volumes of essays, Images, Relics and Devotional Practices in Medieval and Renaissance Italy (2005) and De Re Metallica: Studies in Medieval Metals (2005), and is co-author of Casting Our Own Shadows: Recreating the Medieval Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela (forthcoming).

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