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" Relics and remains / "
edited by Alexandra Walsham.
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BL
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1030266
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b784636
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Relics and remains /\ edited by Alexandra Walsham.
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| Publication Statement
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Oxford :: Oxford Journals,, 2010.
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Past and present supplements ;; suppl. 5, 2010
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355 pages :: illustrations ;; 22 cm.
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0199600589
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: 9780199600588
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"This collection of essays arose out of a conference held at the University of Exeter in September 2008"--Page [8], acknowledgements.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Introduction : Relics and remains / Alexandra Walsham -- Divine of body : the remains of Egyptian kings -- preservation, reverence, and memory in a world without relics / Robert Morkot -- Relics and remains in an ancient Greek world full of anthropomorphic gods / Robin Osborne -- Rulers and relics c.750-c.950 : treasure on earth, treasure in heaven / Julia M.H. Smith -- Relics of piety and power in medieval Islam / Josef W. Meri -- Skeletons in the cupboard : relics after the English Reformation / Alexandra Walsham -- Grapho-relics : Lutheranism and the materialization of the word / Ulinka Rublack -- Tongues, toes, and bones : remembering saints in early modern Bohemia / Howard Louthan -- 'The devil was in that little bone' : the Portuguese capture and destruction of the Buddha's tooth-relic, Goa, 1516 / John S. Strong -- That strange business of memory : relic forgery in Latin America / Paul Gillingham -- The several legs of Santa Anna : a saga of secular relics / Alan Knight -- Mao's travelling mangoes : food as relic in revolutionary China / Adam Yuet Chau -- What remains? Anti-communism, forensic archaeology, and the retelling of the national past in Lithuania and Romania / James Mark -- The search for the remains of Dedan Kimathi : the politics of death and memoralization in post-colonial Kenya / Daniel Branch -- Testimonies as sacred texts : the sanctification of holocaust writing / Zoë Waxman.
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Christian saints-- Cult, Congresses.
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Relics-- History, Congresses.
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Reliquaries, Congresses.
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Saints-- Cult, Congresses.
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Christian saints-- Cult.
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Kollektives Gedächtnis
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Kultgegenstand
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Relics.
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Reliquaries.
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Reliquie
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Reliquie.
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Reliquienkult
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Reliquienkult.
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Saints-- Cult.
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Exeter 2008
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A306.9
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BV890.R36 2010
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11.09bcl
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15.50bcl
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Walsham, Alexandra,1966-
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Oxford Journals (Firm)
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