Treasure, memory, nature church objects in the Middle Ages
"This book traces the origins, economic development, and later history of church treasures, and explores the forms and function of these objects of memory and wonder. Precious metalwork, relics, chess pieces, ostrich eggs, unicorn horns, and bones of giants were among the treasury objects accum...
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London ; Turnhout (Belgium) :
Harvey Miller Publishers, an imprint of Brepols Publishers
[2020]
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| Colección: | Studies in medieval and early Renaissance art history
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword / Herbert L. Kessler
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Ars sacra? The 'objects' of churches
- Chapter 1
- The imaginary of treasure
- The 'treasure' of the church and the 'treasures of churches'
- Spiritual treasures and Christian society (late antiquity)
- Material treasures and sovereignty (Carolingian times)
- The economy of the thesaurus ecclesiae
- From the treasurer to the fabric: The 'common good' (high Middle Ages)
- The 'treasury of merit': indulgences and alms (late Middle Ages)
- Chapter 2
- Memory and histories
- Relics and writing
- The first collections: inventories
- Inventorying: objects, techniques, relevance
- Forms and uses of inventories: the mediation of collections
- Object histories: the construction of memory
- Saint Peter's staff
- Christ's foreskin
- Chess and the imaginary of power
- Imperial positions and military conflicts
- The king of France, Saint-Denis, and Reims
- Chivalric histories
- Chapter 3
- Marvels and nature
- Forms and functions of wonder
- Ostrich eggs, coconuts, mollusk shells: reliquaries and exempla
- Unicorn horns: objects and knowledge
- The remains of giants: natural histories
- Encounters with monsters: mastering the world
- Victory over evil: dragons
- Adventures in the East: griffins' claws
- At the margin of the world: the teeth and bones of sea creatures
- Conclusion: objects, history, museums
- Bibliography
- Index
- Figure credits.
