Passion Relics and the Medieval Imagination: Art, Architecture, and Society, by Cynthia Hahn

Kathryn M. Rudy enjoys a useful summary of recent research on how the instruments of Christ’s Passion were displayed and venerated in the Middle Ages

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February 20, 2020

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February 24, 2020

Kathryn M. Rudy

Twitter: @katerudy1

“Welfenschatz” (Guelph Treasure) displayed at the Kunstgewerbemuseum (Museum of Decorative Arts) in Berlin

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