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082	0	4	_aJ11 _223 _bW762
100	1		_aWisniewski, Robert _d1968- _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe Beginnings of the Cult of Relics
260			_aOxford _bOxford University Press _c2019
300			_a249p _billustrations (black and white) ; _c25 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 219-242) and index.
505	0		_aList of figures -- Abbreviations. Introduction -- Prehistory and early chronology of the cult of relics -- The first miracles -- Defenders of cities -- Relics and divination -- Burials ad sanctos -- Finding relics -- Touching relics -- Displaying and seeing relics -- Dividing relics -- Discussions and theology -- Eastern, Western, and local habits in the cult of relics -- Conclusions. Bibliography -- Index.
520	8		_aChristians have often admired and venerated martyrs who died for their faith, but for long time thought that the bodies of martyrs should remain undisturbed in their graves. Initially, Christian attitude toward the bones of the dead, saint or not, was that of respectful distance. The Beginnings of the Cult of Relics examines how this changed in the mid-fourth century. Robert Wisniewski investigates how Christians began to believe in power of relics, first, over demons, then over physical diseases and enemies. He considers how they sought to reveal hidden knowledge at the tombs of saints and why they buried the death close to them. An essential element of this new belief was a string conviction that the power of relics was transferred in a physical way and so the following chapters study relics as material objects. Wisniewski analyzes what the contact with relics looked like and how close it was. Did people touch, kiss, or look at the very bones, or just at reliquaries which contained them? When did the custom of dividing relics appear? Finally, the book the book deals with discussions and polemics concerning relics and tries to find out how strong was the opposition which this new phenomenon had to face, both within and outside Christianity on its way relics to become an essential element of the medieval religiosity.
648		7	_aTo 1500 _2fast
650		0	_aChurch history _yPrimitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
650		0	_aRelics.
650		0	_aSaints _xCult _xHistory _yTo 1500.
650		7	_aChurch history _xPrimitive and early church. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01710945
650		7	_aRelics. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01093664
650		7	_aSaints _xCult. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01103663
650		7	_a11.52 medieval Christianity. _2nbc _0(NL-LeOCL)077594347
655		7	_aHistory. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01411628
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