Inventing Late Antique Reliquaries: Reception, Material History, and Dynamics of Interaction (4th-6th Centuries Ce)

by Adrien Palladino

The cult of saints, their relics, and devotion to their shrines is a phenomenon born in Late Antiquity that durably shaped medieval and modern practices across a broad geographical and cultural area spreading first throughout the Roman Empire and beyond. How was the creation of vessels for the holy remains of saints implemented during a culturally heterogenous period? Indeed, how could boxes of various shapes, sizes, and materials become containers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 8833138674
• ISBN13: 9788833138671
• Release Date: September 2022
• Publisher: Viella Editrice
• Length: 309 Pages
• Weight: 14.99 lbs.