St. Ursula and the Eleven Thousand Virgins of Cologne : relics, reliquaries and the visual culture of group sanctity in late medieval Europe /
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| Author / Creator: | Montgomery, Scott B. (Scott Bradford) |
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| Imprint: | Oxford ; New York : Peter Lang, 2009. |
| Description: | xv, 207 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8066094 |
Table of Contents:
- Heads and tales: envisioning the Eleven Thousand Virgins of Cologne
- An archaeology of texts and bones: the legend of the Eleven Thousand Virgins
- Bones and more bones: relics and the spread of the cult
- Ecclesia sanctarum undecim milum virginum: the Church of the Eleven Thousand Virgins and its decoration
- The face of sanctity: reliquary busts of the Eleven Thousand Virgins
- Golden visions: altarpieces with relics
- The protective mantle: the Holy Virgins as patron saints of Cologne
- Picturing the pilgrimage: narrative cycles in Cologne
- A peregrinatious tale: images and narrative cycles beyond the Rhineland
- Golden bones: the Goldene Kammer of St. Ursula and early modern developments
- From slight to light: concluding thoughts.
