{"product_id":"strange-beauty-9780271059488","title":"Strange Beauty","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA 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 material and ornament to metaphor and symbolism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Lavishly illustrated in color, this book will be of fundamental importance.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—J. Oliver \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[\u003ci\u003eStrange Beauty\u003c\/i\u003e] stands as a major study in the field and is worth a serious read. Since \u003ci\u003eStrange Beauty\u003c\/i\u003e, more literature has engaged with concepts of reception, materiality, metaphor, and performance, demonstrating the continued relevance of this approach. As important as this work is to the study of relics, it is Hahn’s approach to the complexities of material culture that will provide the greatest appeal to a wide range of scholars and students, both within and beyond medieval studies.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Eliza A. Foster \u003ci\u003ePeregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art \u0026amp; Architecture\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Cynthia Hahn offers a refreshing new synthesis on the topic of medieval reliquaries. She shows that they are a form of ‘representation’ that mediates religious experience of relics as well as their political and institutional meanings. Engaging both primary sources and current theoretical writings, Hahn’s text will be of crucial interest to a broader readership concerned with the material embodiment of the sacred and strategies of representation.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Thomas Dale,University of Wisconsin–Madison\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“What discourses of otherness exist as particular and appropriate to premodernity and not as retrofitted versions of the theoretical frameworks designed to consider these issues for modernity? Addressing this question can profit us beyond the domain of medieval studies. \u003ci\u003eStrange Beauty\u003c\/i\u003e’s intricate objects offer clues to such possible discourses, expressed visually and poised to train viewers—medieval and modern—in significations that we still seek to understand.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Seeta Chaganti \u003ci\u003eCAA.Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eContents\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart I: First Things\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1\tIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2\tThe Reliquary and Its Maker\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3\tRelics, Meaning, and Response: Early Christian Reliquaries, Narrative and Not\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart II: Shaped Reliquaries\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4\t\u003ci\u003eSpolia\u003c\/i\u003e and Sign, Metaphor and Simile\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5\tThe Reliquary Cross\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6\tLike and Unlike Metaphors\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7\tBody-Part Reliquaries: Heads\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8\tBody Part Reliquaries: Other Body Parts\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart III: A Gathering of Saints: Processions and Treasuries\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9\tReliquaries in Action\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e10\tTreasuries\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e11\tRelic Display\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e12\tA Case Study: Wibald of Stavelot as Patron\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e13\tThe Impact of 1204, the “Space” of the Ark, and Conclusion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pennsylvania State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400789500247,"sku":"9780271059488","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/strange-beauty-9780271059488","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}