Saints and Sacred Matter: The Cult of Relics in Byzantium and Beyond
- ISBN-10
- 0884024067
- ISBN-13
- 9780884024064
- Category
- Byzantine Empire
- Pages
- 376
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2015-12-21
- Authors
- Cynthia Hahn, Holger A. Klein
Description
"Saints and Sacred Matter" explores the embodied aspects of the divine physical remains of holy men and women and objects associated with them. Contributors explore how relics linked the past and present with an imagined future in essays that discuss Christian and other religious traditions from the ancient world such as Judaism and Islam."
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