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Sacred Plunder
Author | : David M. Perry |
Publsiher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2015-06-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780271066813 |
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In Sacred Plunder, David Perry argues that plundered relics, and narratives about them, played a central role in shaping the memorial legacy of the Fourth Crusade and the development of Venice’s civic identity in the thirteenth century. After the Fourth Crusade ended in 1204, the disputes over the memory and meaning of the conquest began. Many crusaders faced accusations of impiety, sacrilege, violence, and theft. In their own defense, they produced hagiographical narratives about the movement of relics—a medieval genre called translatio—that restated their own versions of events and shaped the memory of the crusade. The recipients of relics commissioned these unique texts in order to exempt both the objects and the people involved with their theft from broader scrutiny or criticism. Perry further demonstrates how these narratives became a focal point for cultural transformation and an argument for the creation of the new Venetian empire as the city moved from an era of mercantile expansion to one of imperial conquest in the thirteenth century.
Sacred Plunder
Author | : David M. Perry |
Publsiher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 341 |
Release | : 2015-06-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780271066837 |
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In Sacred Plunder, David Perry argues that plundered relics, and narratives about them, played a central role in shaping the memorial legacy of the Fourth Crusade and the development of Venice’s civic identity in the thirteenth century. After the Fourth Crusade ended in 1204, the disputes over the memory and meaning of the conquest began. Many crusaders faced accusations of impiety, sacrilege, violence, and theft. In their own defense, they produced hagiographical narratives about the movement of relics—a medieval genre called translatio—that restated their own versions of events and shaped the memory of the crusade. The recipients of relics commissioned these unique texts in order to exempt both the objects and the people involved with their theft from broader scrutiny or criticism. Perry further demonstrates how these narratives became a focal point for cultural transformation and an argument for the creation of the new Venetian empire as the city moved from an era of mercantile expansion to one of imperial conquest in the thirteenth century.
Sacred History from the Creation to the Giving of the Law
Author | : Edward Porter Humphrey |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 564 |
Release | : 1888 |
Genre | : Bible |
ISBN | : HARVARD:AH5KC4 |
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Tools and the Man
Author | : Washington Gladden |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 1893 |
Genre | : Christian sociology |
ISBN | : UOM:39015066572275 |
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Cult of the Dead
Author | : KYLE. SMITH |
Publsiher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 383 |
Release | : 2024-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780520409835 |
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A cultural history of how Christianity was born from its martyrs. Though it promises eternal life, Christianity was forged in death. Christianity is built upon the legacies of the apostles and martyrs who chose to die rather than renounce the name of their lord. In this innovative cultural history, Kyle Smith shows how a devotion to death has shaped Christianity for two thousand years. For centuries, Christians have cared for their saints, curating their deaths as examples of holiness. Martyrs' stories, lurid legends of torture, have been told and retold, translated and rewritten. Martyrs' bones are alive in the world, relics pulsing with wonder. Martyrs' shrines are still visited by pilgrims, many in search of a miracle. Martyrs have even shaped the Christian conception of time, with each day of the year celebrating the death of a saint. From Roman antiquity to the present, by way of medieval England and the Protestant Reformation, Cult of the Dead tells the fascinating story of how the world's most widespread religion is steeped in the memory of its martyrs.
The British Essayists
Author | : Alexander Chalmers |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 1856 |
Genre | : English essays |
ISBN | : HARVARD:32044021238688 |
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The British essayists with prefaces by A Chalmers
Author | : British essayists |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 750 |
Release | : 1823 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OXFORD:600072931 |
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The Principles of Natural and Politic Law
Author | : Jean Jacques Burlamaqui |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 1807 |
Genre | : International law |
ISBN | : NYPL:33433008808879 |
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