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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Images are beautiful bright and vivid. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> It looks closely at the period between a goo andl the rise of Christianity in the late Bloman Empire to about san the time of the northern European Reformation. This was an age that witnessed the emergence of saints as cremplars of faith and save the evolution of Chris tian art as a material expression of the sacred. During this time churches chapels and monasteries served as repositories for relics that might comprise the bodily remains of the saints or other physical evidence of their existence such as items once owned by them. Enshrined in precious containers studded with jewels these sacred treasures rapidly became the focus of pilgrimage Pilgrimage and relic veneration are of course not confined to one particular time and place and in many of the world’s religions: they remain inextricably linked. The overwhelming desire to feel close to the events recounted by sacred texts propels vast numbers of Jewish Christian and Muslim p?grims each year to the Holy Land while Mecca the most revered site for Muslims the world over constitutes the largest annual pilgrimage in the world. In a similar fashion Hindus will converge on Varanasi while Buddhists might select one of eight holy places for pilgrimae. Each religion has an extensive network of other destinations. (MP)