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As a major advance in the study of medieval piety the interrelationship between the veneration of relics and of the Eucharistic Host is presented here for the first time.
Traced through Christian Antiquity and the early Middle Ages, the veneration of the Host proves to be closely associated with the piety focused on relics of the Saints. Both were kept in the sleeping area of private homes, carried on journeys and placed in graves. They were buried together in altar tables and monks called on both for help in threatening circumstances. Like the relics, the sacred Host was later carried in procession, shown to the people for veneration and used to give blessings.
This book offers a rich account of one of the most revealing dimensions of medieval belief and practice.
Traced through Christian Antiquity and the early Middle Ages, the veneration of the Host proves to be closely associated with the piety focused on relics of the Saints. Both were kept in the sleeping area of private homes, carried on journeys and placed in graves. They were buried together in altar tables and monks called on both for help in threatening circumstances. Like the relics, the sacred Host was later carried in procession, shown to the people for veneration and used to give blessings.
This book offers a rich account of one of the most revealing dimensions of medieval belief and practice.
Price: $168.00
Pages: 468
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Publication Date:
01 May 1995
ISBN: 9789004102637
Format: Other
G.J.C. Snoek has long taught medieval history at the Leiden Institute of Education (LOI). In 1989 he earned his doctorate at the Free University of Amsterdam and today serves as superintendent of high schools in The Netherlands.