Research Catalog

Title

The thirty pieces of silver : coin relics in medieval and modern Europe / Lucia Travaini.

Author

Travaini, Lucia

Publication

• Abingdon, Oxfordshire ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022.
• ©2022

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Details

Description

xxi, 286 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.

Summary

" 'The Thirty Pieces of Silver: Coin relics in medieval and modern Europe' discusses many interconnected topics relating to the most perfidious monetary transaction in history: the betrayal of Jesus by Judas for thirty pieces of silver. According to medieval legend, these coins had existed since the time of Abraham's father and had been used in many transactions recorded in the Bible. This book documents fifty specimens of coins which were venerated as holy relics in medieval and modern churches and monasteries of Europe, from Valencia to Uppsala. Most of these relics are ancient Greek silver coins in origin mounted in precious reliquaries or used for the distribution of their wax imprints believed to have healing powers. Drawing from a wide range of historical sources, from hagiography to numismatics, this book will appeal to students and academics researching Late Antique, Medieval, and Early Modern History, Theology, as well as all those interested in the function of relics throughout Christendom. The Thirty Pieces of Silver is a study that invites meditation on the highly symbolic and powerful role of money through coins which were the price, value, and measure of Christ and which, despite being the most abject objects, managed to become relics"--

Series Statement

Religion and money in the Middle Ages

Uniform Title

• Trenta denari di Giuda. English
• Religion and money in the Middle Ages.

Alternative Title

• Trenta denari di Giuda.
• Coin relics in medieval and modern Europe

Subject

• Coins > Religious aspects > Christianity
• Coins in the Bible
• Silver coins > Europe > History
• Relics
• Silver coins
• Europe

Genre/Form

History.

Note

• "Published in Italian by Viella 2020."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language (note)

• Translated from the Italian.

Contents

From the ritual uses of coins to their creation as relics -- The coins of Saint Helena: objects of devotion before the invention of the Thirty Pieces of Silver -- Judas, the Priests and the Thirty Pieces of Silver -- The legend of the Thirty Pieces of Silver: from hagiographic tale to coin relics -- The Thirty Pieces of Silver depicted as instruments of the Passion -- The Thirty Pieces of Silver as relics: from the first specimens to their proliferation -- The Thirty Pieces of Silver as Jewish shekels -- Through the eyes of the Antiquarian and those of the Devout: Identification and debate since the Sixteenth Century -- Ancient and modern legends, coin relics and the nature of money.

Call Number

JFE 22-2358

ISBN

• 9780367688028
• 0367688026
• 9780367688042
• 0367688042

LCCN

2021036149

OCLC

1261049943

Author

Travaini, Lucia, author.

Title

The thirty pieces of silver : coin relics in medieval and modern Europe / Lucia Travaini.

Publisher

Abingdon, Oxfordshire ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022.

Copyright Date

©2022

Edition

First English edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Religion and money in the Middle Ages

Religion and money in the Middle Ages.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language

Translated from the Italian.

Translation Of:

Translation of: Travaini, Lucia Trenta denari di Giuda Roma : Viella, 2020 9788833133188 (DLC) 2019406069

Other Form:

Online version: Travaini, Lucia. Thirty pieces of silver London ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022 9781003139119 (DLC) 2021036150

Research Call Number

JFE 22-2358