Relics and remains
| Titel: | Relics and remains / ed. by Alexandra Walsham |
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| Ausgabe: | 1 publ. |
| Veröffentlicht: | Oxford : Oxford Univ. Press, 2010 |
| Umfang: | 355 Seiten : Illustrationen |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Schriftenreihe/ mehrbändiges Werk: |
Past & present. Supplement ; [N.S.], Vol. 5 |
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| ISBN: | 9780199600588 ; 0199600588 |
| Hinweise zum Inhalt: |
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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- 1
- Introduction: Relics and Remains
- 2
- Divine of Body: The Remains of Egyptian Kings - Preservation, Reverence, and Memory in a World without Relics
- 3
- Relics and Remains in an Ancient Greek World full of Anthropomorphic Gods
- 4
- Rulers and Relics c.750-c.950: Treasure on Earth, Treasure in Heaven
- 5
- Relics of Piety and Power in Medieval Islam
- 6
- Skeletons in the Cupboard: Relics after the English Reformation
- 7
- Grapho-Relics: Lutheranism and the Materialization of the World
- 8
- Tongues, Toes, and Bones: Remembering Saints in Early Modern Bohemia
- 9
- 'The Devil was in that Little Bone': The Portuguese Capture and Destruction of the Buddha's Tooth-Relic, Goa, 1516
- 10
- That Strange Business of Memory: Relic Forgert in Latin America
- 11
- The Several Legs of Santa Anna: A Saga of Secular Relics
- 12
- Mao's Travelling Mangoes: Food as Relic in Revolutionary China
- 13
- What Remains? Anti-Communism, Forensic Archaeology, and the Retelling of the National Past in Lithuania and Romania
- 14
- The Search for the Remains of Dedan Kimathi: The Politics of Death and Memoralization in Post-Colonial Kenya
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- Testimonies as Sacred Texts: The Sanctification of Holocaust Writing
