Living with the dead in the Middle Ages /

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Author / Creator:Geary, Patrick J., 1948-
Imprint:Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1994.
Description:viii, 273 p.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1837942
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ISBN:0801428564
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-263) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Reading
  • 1. Saints, Scholars, and Society: The Elusive Goal
  • 2. The Uses of Archaeological Sources for Religious and Cultural History
  • Representing
  • 3. Germanic Tradition and Royal Ideology in the Ninth Century: The Visio Karoli Magni
  • 4. Exchange and Interaction between the Living and the Dead in Early Medieval Society
  • Negotiating
  • 5. Humiliation of Saints
  • 6. Coercion of Saints in Medieval Religious Practice
  • 7. Living with Conflicts in Stateless France: A Typology of Conflict Management Mechanisms, 1050-1200
  • Reproducing
  • 8. The Saint and the Shrine: The Pilgrim's Goal in the Middle Ages
  • 9. The Ninth-Century Relic Trade--A Response to Popular Piety?
  • 10. Sacred Commodities: The Circulation of Medieval Relics
  • Living
  • 11. Saint Helen of Athyra and the Cathedral of Troyes in the Thirteenth Century
  • 12. The Magi and Milan
  • Index of Published Sources
  • General Index