Medievalists.net » Reliquaries http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Sun, 06 Dec 2015 19:35:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Genoa: The cog in the new medieval economy http://www.medievalists.net/2015/08/18/genoa-the-cog-in-the-new-medieval-economy/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/08/18/genoa-the-cog-in-the-new-medieval-economy/#comments Tue, 18 Aug 2015 23:07:59 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=60453 Journalist and author Nicholas Walton writes about medieval Genoa's economy, trade and role in the Black Death. Walton recently published a book on Genoese history entitled, "Genoa: La Superba"

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/08/18/genoa-the-cog-in-the-new-medieval-economy/feed/ 0 What Remains: Women, Relics and Remembrance in the Aftermath of the Fourth Crusade http://www.medievalists.net/2014/11/23/remains-women-relics-remembrance-aftermath-fourth-crusade/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/11/23/remains-women-relics-remembrance-aftermath-fourth-crusade/#comments Sun, 23 Nov 2014 16:00:13 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=54303 After the fall of Constantinople to the Latin Crusaders in 1204 hundreds of relics were carried into the West as diplomatic gifts, memorabilia and tokens of victory. Yet many relics were alsosent privately between male crusaders and their spouses and female kin.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/11/23/remains-women-relics-remembrance-aftermath-fourth-crusade/feed/ 0 The Bones of St. Cuthbert: Defining a Saint’s Cult in Medieval Northumbria http://www.medievalists.net/2014/11/19/bones-st-cuthbert-defining-saints-cult-medieval-northumbria/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/11/19/bones-st-cuthbert-defining-saints-cult-medieval-northumbria/#comments Wed, 19 Nov 2014 15:57:24 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=54235 This paper investigates the social, political, and religious changes and tensions which surrounded the cult of St. Cuthbert in medieval Northumbria. Specific comparisons are made between the Anglo-Saxon and Norman periods in English history, and how St. Cuthbert's cult responded to the Norman Conquest in 1066.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/11/19/bones-st-cuthbert-defining-saints-cult-medieval-northumbria/feed/ 0 Places to See: Sainte Chapelle http://www.medievalists.net/2014/11/03/saint-chapelle/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/11/03/saint-chapelle/#comments Mon, 03 Nov 2014 23:14:09 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=53868 Travelling to Paris ? Add this beautiful thirteenth century Capetian chapel to your MUST-SEE list for your next visit!

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/11/03/saint-chapelle/feed/ 0 BOOK REVIEW: Plague Land by SD Sykes http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/04/book-review-plague-land-sd-sykes/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/04/book-review-plague-land-sd-sykes/#comments Thu, 04 Sep 2014 13:47:12 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=52323 My review of SD Sykes brilliant medieval thriller, Plague Land.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/04/book-review-plague-land-sd-sykes/feed/ 0 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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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/07/07/saints-tradition-monastic-identity-ghent-relics-850-1100/feed/ 0 Call for Papers: Moving Women, Moving Objects (300-1500) (ICMA CAA 2015) http://www.medievalists.net/2014/04/08/call-papers-moving-women-moving-objects-300-1500-icma-caa-2015/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/04/08/call-papers-moving-women-moving-objects-300-1500-icma-caa-2015/#comments Tue, 08 Apr 2014 22:05:58 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=48870 CFP: Moving Women, Moving Objects (300-1500) (ICMA CAA 2015)

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/04/08/call-papers-moving-women-moving-objects-300-1500-icma-caa-2015/feed/ 0 Under the aegis of the saints. Hagiography and power in early Carolingian northern Italy http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/22/under-the-aegis-of-the-saints-hagiography-and-power-in-early-carolingian-northern-italy/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/22/under-the-aegis-of-the-saints-hagiography-and-power-in-early-carolingian-northern-italy/#comments Thu, 23 Jan 2014 00:50:48 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=46905 This article gives an overview of the features, choices, tastes and models of sanctity characteristic of Italian hagiography, against the background of local contexts and political competition.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/22/under-the-aegis-of-the-saints-hagiography-and-power-in-early-carolingian-northern-italy/feed/ 0 “I, too, am a Christian”: early martyrs and their lives in the late medieval and early modern Irish manuscript tradition http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/11/i-too-am-a-christian-early-martyrs-and-their-lives-in-the-late-medieval-and-early-modern-irish-manuscript-tradition/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/11/i-too-am-a-christian-early-martyrs-and-their-lives-in-the-late-medieval-and-early-modern-irish-manuscript-tradition/#comments Sat, 11 Jan 2014 23:43:30 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=46580 This paper examines part of that future: late medieval and early modern Gaelic Irish devotion to the early Christian martyrs as evidenced in the vernacular manuscript tradition.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/11/i-too-am-a-christian-early-martyrs-and-their-lives-in-the-late-medieval-and-early-modern-irish-manuscript-tradition/feed/ 0 The Voices of the Saints: Speaking Reliquaries http://www.medievalists.net/2013/12/31/the-voices-of-the-saints-speaking-reliquaries/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/12/31/the-voices-of-the-saints-speaking-reliquaries/#comments Tue, 31 Dec 2013 16:33:06 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=46221 Although they have often been considered as mere representational labels identifying the relic contained, body-part reliquaries, or what I would prefer to call shaped reliquaries, participate in a fluid exchange of signs

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