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Table of Contents:

• Heads and tales: envisioning the Eleven Thousand Virgins of Cologne
• An archaeology of texts and bones: the legend of the Eleven Thousand Virgins
• Bones and more bones: relics and the spread of the cult
• Ecclesia sanctarum undecim milum virginum: the Church of the Eleven Thousand Virgins and its decoration
• The face of sanctity: reliquary busts of the Eleven Thousand Virgins
• Golden visions: altarpieces with relics
• The protective mantle: the Holy Virgins as patron saints of Cologne
• Picturing the pilgrimage: narrative cycles in Cologne
• A peregrinatious tale: images and narrative cycles beyond the Rhineland
• Golden bones: the Goldene Kammer of St. Ursula and early modern developments
• From slight to light: concluding thoughts.

Author/Creator:

Montgomery, Scott B. (Scott Bradford)

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

St. Ursula and the Eleven Thousand Virgins of Cologne: relics, reliquaries and the visual culture of group sanctity in late medieval Europe [by Montgomery, S.B.]

Subjects:

Ursula, Saint — Art

Ursula, Saint — Cult — Europe

Ursula, Saint — Relics — Europe

Eleven Thousand Virgins (Legendary saints) in art

Eleven Thousand Virgins (Legendary saints)

Christian women saints — Cult — Europe

Christian art and symbolism — Europe — Medieval, 500-1500

Reliquaries, Gothic

Relics — Europe

Ursula, Saint

Ursula

500-1500

Relics

Christian women saints — Cult

Christian women saints

Christian art and symbolism

Rites and ceremonies

Europe

Genres:

Art

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-200) and index.

Physical Description:

xv, 207 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Call Numbers:

N8080.U77 M66 2010

ISBNs:

9783039118526 (alk. paper)
3039118528 (alk. paper)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2009048338

OCLC Numbers:

495598618
470359933 [Invalid]