Studies on the Cult of Relics in Byzantium Up to 1204 by John Wortley

Studies on the Cult of Relics in Byzantium Up to 1204

Variorum Collected Studies

John Wortley

300 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history religion challenging dark informative medium-paced
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Constantinople was well known in its heyday for the enormous collection of relics housed in its churches: bones, even whole bodies and intimate possessions of holy men and women. Almost all these objects had been imported from various parts of the...

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