Intimacy and Abundance: Textile Relics, the Veronica, and Christian Devotion in the Aftermath of the Fourth Crusade

During the early thirteenth century crusaders carried or sent dozens of textile relics from the treasuries of the Levant and Byzantium to the West. As these objects were integrated into the devotional life of western Europe, they collapsed the perceptions of temporal and spatial distance between med...

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Main Author: Lester, Anne Elisabeth 1974- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Taylor & Francis [2018]
In: Material religion
Year: 2018, Volume: 14, Issue: 4, Pages: 533-544
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Crusade (1202-1204) / Veronica legend / Textiles / Relic / Piety / History 1200-1300
IxTheo Classification:CB Christian life; spirituality
KAE Church history 900-1300; high Middle Ages
Further subjects:B Crusades
B Intimacy
B the Veronica
B abundance
B Devotion
B cloth
B Relics
B sudarium
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