ARTS 421 - Restless Bones, Heavenly Bodies: Reliquaries in the Middle Ages

Semester Offered: First Semester
Credits (Range): 3 Hours
Attribute: 3HU
New course added 07.01.10

Designed to coincide with the first major exhibition of medieval reliquaries in the United States, which opens at the Cleveland Museum of Art in the Fall, this seminar examines the most important objects all Christians sought to encounter in the Middle Ages: containers for the bones of saints. These included reliquaries of all shapes and sizes, made of the most precious materials as well as shrines, amulets, and by the end of the Middle Ages, paintings.
Enrollment Limit: 15
Instructor: J. Kingsley
Consent of the Instructor Required? Y