Decoration for the Holy Dead: Visual Embellisments on Tombs and Shrines of Saints
Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2002. Paperback. Turquoise wraps, color illustrated, white and yellow lettering; xxxi, 260 pp; illustrated in bw and color. "Devotion to saints, their cult, and memory was enormously popular in medieval Europe. Factual evidence in the form of tombs, shrines, reliquaries, pilgrimages, vitae and souvenirs is legion and..... More