The relics of scholarship: on the production, reproduction, and the interpretation of hallowed remains in late antiquity, Byzantium, early Islam, and the Medieval West / Anthony Cutler. Relic, icon, and architecture: the material articulation of the holy in East Christian art / Jaś Elsner -- Relics: an evolving tradition in Latin Christianity / Julia M.H. Smith -- Jewish veneration of the "special dead" in late antiquity and beyond / Ra'anan Boustan -- Medieval Muslim martyrs to the plague: venerating the companions of Muhammad in the Jordan Valley / Nancy Khalek -- Figuring relics: a poetics of enshrinement / Patricia Cox Miller -- Liturgical time and Holy Land reliquaries in Early Byzantium / Derek Krueger -- Sacred installations: the material conditions of relic collections in late antique churches / Ann Marie Yasin -- "Grant us to share a place and lot with them": relics and the Byzantine Church building (9th-15th centuries) / Vasileios Marinis and Robert Ousterhout -- Spolia as relics? Relics as spoils?: the meaning and functions of spolia in Western Medieval reliquaries / Hiltrud Westermann-Angerhausen -- "The sting of death is the thorn, but the circle of the crown is victory over death": the making of the crown of thorns / Cynthia Hahn -- The relics of new saints: deposition, translation, and veneration in Middle and Late Byzantium / Alice-Mary Talbot -- Materiality and the sacred: Byzantine reliquaries and the rhetoric of enshrinement / Holger A. Klein -- Byzantium and beyond: relics of the infancy of Christ / Jannic Durand -- The incarnate shrine: Shi'ism and the cult of kingship in early Safavid Iran / Kishwar Rizvi -- The relics of scholarship: on the production, reproduction, and the interpretation of hallowed remains in late antiquity, Byzantium, early Islam, and the Medieval West / Anthony Cutler.
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