Holy Bones, Holy Dust: How Relics Shaped the History of Medieval Europe

by Charles Freeman

Book Overview

A richly textured history spanning a thousand years of holy relics across Europe Relics were everywhere in medieval society. Saintly morsels such as bones, hair, teeth, blood, milk, and clothes, and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300125712
• ISBN13: 9780300125719
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.5" x 9.4"