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St. Ursula and the Eleven Thousand Virgins of Cologne : relics, reliquaries and the visual culture of group sanctity in late medieval Europe
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ISBN: 3035300879 Year: 2010 Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Peter Lang,

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The cult of St. Ursula and the Eleven Thousand Virgin Martyrs of Cologne was the most widespread relic cult in medieval Europe. The sheer abundance of relics of the Eleven Thousand Virgins, which allowed for the display of immense collections, shaped the notion of corporate cohesion that characterized the cult. Though the primacy of St. Ursula as the leader of this holy band was established by the tenth century, she was conceived as the head of a corporate body. Innumerable inventories and liturgical texts attest to the fact that this cult was commemorated and referenced as a collective mass -


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St. Ursula and the eleven thousand Virgins of Cologne : relics, reliquaries and the visual culture of group sanctity in late medieval Europe
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ISBN: 9783039118526 3039118528 Year: 2010 Publisher: Frankfurt am Main [etc.] Peter Lang

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Christian special devotions --- Ursula [s.] --- anno 1200-1499 --- Europe --- Christian women saints --- Christian art and symbolism --- Reliquaries, Gothic --- Relics --- Saintes chrétiennes --- Art et symbolisme chrétiens --- Reliquaires gothiques --- Reliques --- Cult --- Culte --- Ursula, --- Eleven Thousand Virgins (Legendary saints) in art --- Eleven Thousand Virgins (Legendary saints) --- Eleven Thousand Virgins (Legendary saints) in art. --- Reliquaries, Gothic. --- 235.3 URSULA --- 248-055.2 --- 248 "04/14" --- Hagiografie--URSULA --- Vrouwen en spiritualiteit --- Spiritualiteit. Ascese. Mystiek. Vroomheid--Middeleeuwen --- 248-055.2 Vrouwen en spiritualiteit --- Saintes chrétiennes --- Art et symbolisme chrétiens --- Gothic reliquaries --- Relics and reliquaries, Gothic --- Relics and reliquaries --- Bones --- Religious articles --- 11,000 Virgins (Legendary saints) --- Holy Virgins of Cologne (Legendary saints) --- Christian martyrs --- Christian saints --- Legends --- Christian saints, Women --- Women Christian saints --- Women saints --- Art, Christian --- Art, Ecclesiastical --- Arts in the church --- Christian symbolism --- Ecclesiastical art --- Symbolism and Christian art --- Religious art --- Symbolism --- Church decoration and ornament --- Orsola, --- Symbolism in art --- Christian women saints - Cult - Europe --- Christian art and symbolism - Europe - Medieval, 500-1500 --- Relics - Europe --- Ursula et soc. vv. mm. --- Ursula, - Saint - Art --- Ursula, - Saint - Cult - Europe --- Ursula, - Saint - Relics - Europe --- Ursule (sainte ; 02..-02..) --- Onze mille vierges --- Moyen Age --- Ursula, - Saint

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