HIST 214 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Patron Saint, Reliquary, Secondary Source
27 Dec 2015
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Focus on primary sources (the first 2 articles) Contrast of style and language between the ibn al-athir and the five. Record notes on five different sources but you can focus on a few of accounts the five crusade. You can ignore the late 12th century and only do the beginning of the. Religion is cultural matrix in which everything is understood through. Relics provide the institutions that hold them with an aura = legitimation of authority. Very important oaths sworn on relics give a cosmic seal of approval over important deals. Similar functions for holy water, and for consecrated hosts from mass. Roman deacon burnt to death in rome under emperor valerian. Patron saint of comedians, librarians, students, tanners, chefs, meat- roasters and of rome, rotterdam, sri lanka and canada. A good work, an act of penance for sins (to gain absolution or later. Travel as means of accessing the sacred. Sacred place and sacred history see ex.
