Medievalists.net » Ghent http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Mon, 07 Dec 2015 05:01:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Saints, Tradition and Monastic Identity: The Ghent Relics, 850-1100 http://www.medievalists.net/2014/07/07/saints-tradition-monastic-identity-ghent-relics-850-1100/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/07/07/saints-tradition-monastic-identity-ghent-relics-850-1100/#comments Mon, 07 Jul 2014 11:35:11 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=50949 The extraordinary story ofthe Ghent relics was first told by Oswald Holder- Egger in an article published in 1886. During his work on part two of volume 15 of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica Scriptores series, which Holder- Egger had just finished, he had come across the hagiographie literature produced at the abbeys of St Baafs and St Pieters in Ghent.

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