Mobile Saints: Relic Circulation, Devotion, and Conflict in the Central Middle Ages Craig Kate
Mobile Saints: Relic Circulation, Devotion, and Conflict in the Central Middle Ages Craig Kate Mobile Saints examines the central medieval (ca. Though the permanent displacements of…
Specifikacia Mobile Saints: Relic Circulation, Devotion, and Conflict in the Central Middle Ages Craig Kate
Mobile Saints: Relic Circulation, Devotion, and Conflict in the Central Middle Ages Craig Kate
Mobile Saints examines the central medieval (ca. Though the permanent displacements of relics-translations- have long been understood as politically and culturally significant activities, these temporary circulations have received relatively little attention. 950-1150 CE) practice of removing saints' relics from rural monasteries in order to take them on out-and-back journeys, particularly within northern France and the Low Countries.
Using hagiographical and liturgical texts, this study reveals both the opportunities and tensions associated with these movements: circulating relics extended the power of the saint into the wider world, but could also provoke public displays of competition, Yet the act of taking a medieval relic from its "home," even for a short time, had the power to transform the object, the people it encountered, and the landscape it traveled through.
Philosophy in the Middle Ages