Medieval and Early Modern Devotional Objects in Global Perspective Translations of the Sacred

Introduction—Elizabeth Robertson and Jennifer Jahner * Relics and Life Story of the Buddha—John S. Strong * Word as Relic in Medieval Daoism—Stephen R. Bokenkamp * The Book as a Sacred Object in Private Homes in Early or Medieval India—Gregory Schopen * Gone To Ground: Relics and Holy Wells in Medieval and Early Modern Ireland—Catherine McKenna * “Cunningly hidden”: Invisible and Forgotten Relics in the Romanesque Work of Art—Kirk Ambrose * Julian of Norwich’s Unmediated Vision—Elizabeth Robertson * The Past, Present, and Future in Medieval Surveys of Roman Relics—C. David Benson * The Reformation of the Relic: Lydgate’s and Milton’s Saint Edmund—Katarzyna  Rutkowski * “The Tragedy of the Handkerchief”: Objects Sacred and Profane in Shakespeare’s Othello—Richard C. McCoy * Moriscos and the Desacralization of Stories in Early Modern Spain—Mary Elizabeth Perry * Sacred Cloth and Veiled Body: Guadalupe’s Tilma and Other Relic Textiles—Jeannette Favrot Peterson * From the Devil's Herb to Saint Thomas’s Gift: The Christianization of Guaraní Sacred Plants in the Jesuit Reductions in Paraguay—Andrés I. Prieto * The Sacred, the Secret, and the Ethics of Historical Interpretation: What I Learned From the Santos of New Mexico—Claire Farago * Afterword: Persons and Things—Peter Stallybrass

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