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St. Ursula and the Eleven Thousand Virgins of Cologne : relics, reliquaries and the visual culture of group sanctity in late medieval Europe / Scott B. Montgomery.

Title: St. Ursula and the Eleven Thousand Virgins of Cologne : relics, reliquaries and the visual culture of group sanctity in late medieval Europe / Scott B. Montgomery.
Author: Montgomery, Scott B. (Scott Bradford)
Publication: Oxford ; New York : Peter Lang, 2009.

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Description

xv, 207 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Alternative Title

Saint Ursula and the Eleven Thousand Virgins of Cologne
Relics, reliquaries and the visual culture of group sanctity in late medieval Europe

Subject

Genre/Form

Art

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-200) and index.

Processing Action (note)

committed to retain

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.

ISBN

9783039118526 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2009048338

OCLC

470359933
SCSB-10310049

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library