Dismembering Saint Quentin: Gothic Architecture and the Display of Relics
Ellen M. Shortell
In 1228, during the construction of Gothic choir and chevet collegiate church Saint-Quentin, relics church's three patron saints were brought up from crypt to be displayed in upper church. Heads, hands arms separated placed new reliquaries. Architectural historians have tied such events building chronologies past. This article focuses on social, political, spiritual aspects relationship between display use relics, especially body-part a its decoration.
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