This publication was originally published as Cárdenas, Livia, Die Textur des Bildes. Das Heiltumsbuch im Kontext religiöser Medialität des Spätmittelalters. © Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin, Boston. All rights reserved.
The translation of this work was funded by Geisteswissenschaften International – Translation Funding for Work in the Humanities and Social Sciences from Germany, a joint initiative of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, the German Federal Foreign Office, the collecting society VG WORT and the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels (German Publishers & Booksellers Association).
Cover illustration: Wittenberg Relic Book 1509 (B), detail from fol. 17v, reliquary shrine, British Museum, Department of Prints and Drawings. ©The Trustees of the British Museum.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Cárdenas, Livia, author. | Simon, Anne, translator. | Cárdenas, Livia. Textur des Bildes das Heiltumsbuch im Kontext religiöser Medialität des Spätmittelalters.
Title: The texture of images : the relic book in late-medieval religiosity and early modern aesthetics / by Livia Cárdenas ; translated by Anne Simon.
Other titles: Textur des Bildes. English
Description: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021] | Series: Library of the written word, 1874-4834 ; volume 85 | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020036021 (print) | LCCN 2020036022 (ebook) | ISBN 9789004404489 (hardback) | ISBN 9789004440128 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Relic books. | Books and reading--Europe, German-speaking-- History--16th century. | Books and reading--Religious aspects--Christianity. | Christian saints--Cult--Europe, German-speaking. | Authenticity (Philosophy) | Aesthetics, Medieval. | Aesthetics, Renaissance.
Classification: LCC Z1023 .C27313 2021 (print) | LCC Z1023 (ebook) | DDC 002--dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020036021
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020036022
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ISSN 1874-4834
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