The Cult of Relics in the Letters and ‘Dialogues’ of Pope Gregory the Great: A Lexicographical Study

Late antiquity and the early Middle Ages witnessed a change in the Christian attitude toward the remains of the saints. Holy bodies came to be treated less and less as normal corpses, worthy of special veneration but still subject to many of the laws and customs which had regulated the treatment of...

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Main Author: McCulloh, John M. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge University Press 1976
In: Traditio
Year: 1976, Volume: 32, Issue: 1, Pages: 145-184
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