Relics and Reliquaries
Hong Kong University March 20, 2018
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LISTEN
Podcasts from A History of the World in 100 Objects
→ Hedwig Glass Beaker (podcast 57)
→ Holy Thorn Reliquary (podcast 66)
WATCH
Video of the opening of the Portable Altar of Countess Gertrude
Video on medieval goldsmithing in the making of reliquaries
EXPLORE
3D model of the Pamplona Casket
3D model of the Reliquary Arm of St. Valentine
READ
Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
Bagnoli, Martina, et al., eds. Treasures of Heaven: Saints, Relics, and Devotion in Medieval
Europe. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2010.
Geary, Patrick J. Furta sacra: Thefts of Relics in the Central Middle Ages. Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 1990.
Hahn, Cynthia. “The Voices of the Saints: Speaking Reliquaries.” Gesta 36, no. 1 (1997): 20-31.
Remensnyder, Amy G. “Legendary Treasure at Conques: Reliquaries and Imaginative Memory.”
Speculum 71, no. 4 (1996): 884-906.
Sheingorn, Pamela, trans. The Book of Sainte Foy. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania
Press, 1995.