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1 online resource (291 pages) |
| Series |
Routledge Approaches to History Ser. ; v. 32 |
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Routledge Approaches to History Ser
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| Contents |
An ignominious burial : the treatment of the body of Jesus of Nazareth / Andrea Nicolotti -- The cult of relics in the late Roman Empire : legal aspects / Maria G. Castello -- A liquid miracle : the origins of the liquefaction ritual of the blood of Saint Januarius / Francesco Paolo de Ceglia -- The circulation of Roman relics in the Savoy states : dynamics of devotion and political uses in the modern and contemporary ages / Paolo Cozzo -- Jewish intellectuals and the "martyrdom" of Simon of Trent in Habsburg restoration Italy : anti-Semitism, relics and historical criticism / Emanuele D'Antonio -- Some observations on the itinerary of Don Bosco's relics / Mauro Forno -- Cemeteries and villages in the thirteenth-century countryside / Luigi Provero -- Within, beneath and outside the city : the space of the dead in early modern Naples (seventeenth to nineteenth centuries) / Diego Carnevale -- Bodies "as objects preserved in museums" : the Capuchin catacombs in Palermo / Natale Spineto -- "Roasted and eaten" : the Neapolitan counter-revolution of 1799 and the use of Jacobin remains / Luca Addante -- "You can tell a man from his head" : the study and preservation of the skulls of celebrated Italians in the nineteenth century / Simone Baral -- The remains of the vanquished : bodies and martyrs of the Roman Republic from the Risorgimento to Fascism / Silvia Cavicchioli -- The medicalisation of the corpse in liberal Italy : national legislation and the case of Turin / Silvano Montaldo -- Simulacra of eternal life : ostensions, exhibitions and the concealment of human remains / Maria Teresa Milicia |
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Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force. WlAbNL |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Provero, Luigi
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| ISBN |
9781000751864 |
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1000751864 |
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9781000752120 |
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1000752127 |
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