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    The Reliquary Effect: Enshrining the Sacred Object

    Cynthia Hahn

    The Reliquary Effect is the first full survey in English to investigate the societal value of reliquaries. It focuses on relics and reliquaries of the Christian tradition, from the earliest…

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    Portrayed on the Heart: Narrative Effect in Pictorial Lives of Saints from the Tenth through the Thirteenth Century

    Cynthia Hahn

    Hagiography,or writing about and illustrating the lives of saints, was one of the most creative areas for artistic inspiration in the Middle Ages. This book explores the sumptuously illustrated saints’…

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    Passion Relics and the Medieval Imagination: Art, Architecture, and Society

    Cynthia Hahn

    Although objects associated with the Passion and suffering of Christ are among the most important and sacred relics venerated by the Catholic Church, this is the first study that considers…

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    The Thing of Mine I Have Loved Best: Meaningful Jewels

    Cynthia Hahn

    This book studies forty-six pieces of European jewelry - pendants, reliquaries, amulets, and talismans - from the eighth to the eighteenth century.

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    Heart’s Desire: The Darnley Jewel and the Human Body: The Watson Gordon Lecture 2018

    Cynthia Hahn

    The Darnley jewel, a masterpiece of the goldsmith’s art, has been deemed a love token, but has also been labeled an emblem of political ambition.

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    Saints and Sacred Matter: The Cult of Relics in Byzantium and Beyond

    Saints and Sacred Matter explores the embodied aspects of the divine-physical remains of holy men and women and objects associated with them. Contributors explore how relics linked the past and…

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    Strange Beauty: Issues in the Making and Meaning of Reliquaries, 400-circa 1204

    Cynthia Hahn (Professor of Art History, Hunter College, Department of Art)

    A study of reliquaries as a form of representation in medieval art. Explores how reliquaries stage the importance and meaning of relics using a wide range of artistic means from…

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    In the Footsteps of Zarafa, First Giraffe in France: A Chronicle of Giraffomania, 1826-1845

    Olivier Lebleu

    This engaging account traces the remarkable history of France’s first giraffe, a gift from an Egyptian Pasha to King Charles X in 1826. Zarafa, who was taken by boat from…

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    In the Footsteps of Zarafa, First Giraffe in France: A Chronicle of Giraffomania, 1826-1845

    Olivier Lebleu

    This engaging account traces the remarkable history of France’s first giraffe, a gift from an Egyptian Pasha to King Charles X in 1826. Zarafa, who was taken by boat from…

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    Contextualizing Conques. Imaginaries, Narratives & Geographies

    Reapproaching Conques from new contexts is the basis of the present volume, a product of the international project "Conques in the Global World. Transferring Knowledge: from Material to Immaterial Heritage"…

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    Visible Writings: Cultures, Forms, Readings

    Provides insights into the many forms of connection between visibility and legibility, shedding new light on the visual dimensions of writings, as well as writing’s interaction with images. Essays discuss…

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    Graphic Devices and the Early Decorated Book

    Examinations of the use of diagrams, symbols etc. found as commentary in medieval texts.

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