Holy Bones, Holy Dust: How Relics Shaped the History of Medieval Europe

by Charles Freeman

Book Overview

A richly textured history spanning a thousand years of holy relics across Europe

Relics were everywhere in medieval society. Saintly morsels such as bones, hair, teeth, blood, milk, and clothes, and items like the Crown of Thorns, coveted by Louis IX of France, were thought to bring the believer closer to the saint, who might intercede with God on his or her behalf. In the first comprehensive history in English of the rise of relic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300184301
• ISBN13: 9780300184303
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.7" x 8.9"