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...Siobhain Bly Calkin This article analyzes an English miracle narrative in which a portion of the Holy Cross is implanted within a knight's body in the Holy Land and is translated to Cornwall. The text raises important questions about what implantation means for the relic and human matters so...

... a fragment of the True Cross in the fire to test whether it could withstand the flames. The intellectual premise for her experiment with the holy relic can be found in her own écrit or conversion narrative. Analysis of this narrative demonstrates that Anne's application of philosophical skepticism...

..., kissed, beheld, and wore these measures, drawn scaled or life‐sized, in expectation of protections in life or indulgences after death. These metric relics are considered in light of the mathematics of medieval measurement, which essentially comprised laying one body against another to deliver some kind...

... of the executions of four priests: Edmund Campion and Alexander Brian in 1581, Edmund Geninges in 1591, and Robert Southwell in 1595. In the narratives of these deaths, we can see how English Reformations not only occasioned new relic-making by English Catholics, but also, paradoxically, resulted in relic cults...

...Andrew R. Casper This essay recovers the dialectics of authenticity informed by the reinvigorated emergence of the Mandylion of Edessa as an authorized early Christian relic in Counter-Reformation Italy. The original was a miraculously generated icon of Christ's face which later became a major...

... standpoint body and soul maintained a bond after death, the relics of heretics must have seemed as frightening as those of the saints seemed blessed. The essay thus stresses the close relationship between saints and heretics through the exceptional characteristics attributed to their bodies. © 2015 by Duke...

... from annihilation by reformers’ zeal and from neglect and time. These same collectors also inscribed new cultural histories on these manuscripts, which could make them material sites for articulating ideological investment, could even charge them with the numinous power of sacred relic connecting...

... materialities of religion and the environment. [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by Duke University Press 2024 Reformation relations between Germany and Rome relics environment mining On Thursday, October 29, 1519, a procession set off from the Annenkirche in the center...

... University of California, Riverside Riverside, California While defending the veneration of relics against their Gallic detractor Vigi- lantius (who scorned such veneration as mere idolatry),1 monk and man- of-letters Jerome described a charged moment at which a scriptural...

... be assumed that whether in the form of scribal copying of 20 Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 32.1 / 2002 a manuscript, the translation of relics from one shrine to another, the co- opting of a ceremonial role, the redrafting of an iconographic image, or the reading of a text, medieval...

.... By the later Middle Ages in Europe, the cross was the sacred object par excellence: it circulated as relics and representations, was performed in blessings, extolled in poems and sermons, evoked in prayers of healing and protection, and venerated in ceremonies such as creeping to the cross on Good...

... an individual's compositional choices. The readings for Thomas's feast day in Barb. lat. 496 may also be taken as proof of growing devotion toward Thomas's body as a Dominican relic. At the time of the manuscript's production, Thomas's body was not in Dominican custody. In 1274, the corpse remained where Thomas...

... Caught Looking: Under the Gaze of Inca Atawallpa, 15 November 1532  373 – 405 Hillman, Jennifer Putting Faith to the Test: Anne de Gonzague and the Incombustible Relic  163 – 186 Hutterer, Maile When Old Meets New: Classicizing Columns in Northern French Flying Buttresses  281 – 320 Justice...

..., offering an overview Coneys / Pilgrimage, Print, and Performance 81 of the city s seven principal churches and their smaller counterparts, along with their chief relics and associated indulgences. The manuscript format of both the Mirabilia urbis Romae and the Indulgentiae ecclesiarum urbis Romae varied...

... pow- erful example of Edward’s artifactual appropriation occurred in his 1284 campaign in Wales. During this campaign, Llywelyn ap Gruffydd, the last prince of Wales, was killed, and Edward seized two of Llywelyn’s prized pos- sessions, Y Groes Naid, a relic reputed to be a piece of the True Cross...

... that the miracles performed, and their performers (saints, icons, and relics), retained their spiritual momentum over a period of time. The Blachernae miracle at Constantinople operated within similar parameters (same site, same icon, same day of the week), as did the basic premise guiding the miraculous resolution...

... to be carrying the relics of martyrs in my hand and a light seemed to come from them, as happens when the sun is reected on a bright mirror so that the eye is dazzled by the brilliance of the beam” ( Vita Mac. 15). This dream of relics, occurring as Gregory approaches what is to be his last meeting...

... the sites of martyrdom rein- scribes Rome as a network of holy places, established by the many churches within the city that housed the martyrs’ bodies and relics and made Rome an international center of pilgrimage. During the Avignon crisis and the schism, Rome’s churches and places of pilgrimage...

... directing a horse. In countering the heresiarch on the Eucharist and quali- ties, Netter references the physics of qualities and motion. Concerning the sacraments, he notes that baptism “confert gratiam” as it “continet influen- tiam gratiae.”56 Grace is also present in relics and blessed objects: holy...