Mobile Saints: Relic Circulation, Devotion, and Conflict in the Central Middle Ages
Economic and moral visions of relic circulationThe sources and their complicationsOrganizationNotesONE: DeparturesThe effects of forced relic movementThe refugee saintThe saint in exileRemembering forced movement (tenth to eleventh centuries)The saints and their homesConclusionNotesLiturgical frameworks for relic circulationThe Cluniac customariesReliquias minores and phylacteriesRelics in Palm Sunday processionsIdealizing exits and entriesNotesTWO: En routeRelics and their companions as travelersThe mobile relicCarrying the saintAccompanying the saintTraveling with relics as pilgrimageNotesTraveling relics and ecclesiastical competitionAssembling the saints“Friendly” relic encountersMiracle attributionControlling space and making alliesNotesLay responses to traveling relicsDid laypeople oppose relic movement?Relic entries, exits, and the carnivalesqueAccess and opportunitySaint who? Questioning and defianceNotesTHREE: AfterlivesRelic circulation and the landscapeBibliography