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List of Illustrations | p. ix |
Preface | p. xii |
Prologue: The Making of a Martyr | p. 1 |
How the Christian Relic Emerged | p. 9 |
The Incorruptible Flesh of the Martyrs | p. 15 |
Creating a Christian Landscape | p. 24 |
The Battle for Acceptance | p. 29 |
The View from Byzantium | p. 37 |
Bishops, Magic and Relics in the Post-Roman World | p. 48 |
‘A barbarous, fierce and unbelieving nation’ | p. 61 |
The Great Consolidato | p. 69 |
Hope and Desperation in a Disordered World | p. 80 |
Cults and the Rise of Anti-Semitism | p. 89 |
Fervent Christian Pilgrims | p. 94 |
‘The eyes are fed with gold-bedecked reliquaries’ | p. 108 |
Looting the East | p. 120 |
Louis IX and the Sainte-Chapelle | p. 131 |
Sacred Flesh Between Death and Resurrection | p. 139 |
‘Christ's recruits … fight back’ | p. 146 |
Protectors of il Popolo | p. 156 |
The Virgin Mary and the Penitent Whore | p. 169 |
The Wondrous Blood of Christ | p. 186 |
Rescuers and Devils | p. 197 |
‘Of far-off saints, hallowed in sundry lands’ | p. 206 |
‘dead images that ... may not ... help any man of any disease’ | p. 219 |
Protestantism and the New Iconoclasm | p. 228 |
Intimations of Reality | p. 247 |
Reasserting the Miraculous | p. 254 |
Within the Community of the Supernatural | p. 266 |
Notes | p. 271 |
Select Bibliography | p. 288 |
Index | p. 297 |
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