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This book traces the origins, economic development, and later history of church treasures, and explores the forms and function of these objects of memory and wonder.00Precious metalwork, relics, chess pieces, ostrich eggs, unicorn horns, and bones of giants were among the treasury objects accumulated in churches during the Middle Ages. The material manifestations of a Christian worldview, they would only later become naturalia and objets d?art, from the sixteenth and the nineteenth century onwards, respectively.00Philippe Cordez traces the rhetorical origination, economic development, and later history of church treasures, and explores the forms and functions of the memorial objects that constituted them. Such objects were a source of wonder for their contemporaries and remain so today, albeit for quite different reasons. Indeed, our fascination relates primarily to their epistemic and aesthetic qualities. Dealing also with these paradigm shifts, this study opens up new paths toward an archeology of current scholarly and museum practices.0Philippe Cordez is Deputy Director of the German Center for Art History in Paris.

Art objects, Medieval. --- Liturgical objects. --- Reliquaries, Medieval. --- Relics. --- Devotional objects --- Christian art and symbolism --- Catholic Church. --- Objets rituels --- Trésors d'églises --- Objets d'art médiévaux --- Émerveillement --- Mémoire --- Église catholique --- Objets liturgiques --- Christian church history --- Applied arts. Arts and crafts --- church plate --- religious objects --- anno 500-1499 --- 930.85 --- 904 --- 7.046 --- 27 "04/14" --- 27 "04/14" Histoire de l'Eglise--Middeleeuwen --- 27 "04/14" Kerkgeschiedenis--Middeleeuwen --- Histoire de l'Eglise--Middeleeuwen --- Kerkgeschiedenis--Middeleeuwen --- 7.046 Iconografie: mythologische-, religieuze-, epische voorstellingen. Legenden --- Iconografie: mythologische-, religieuze-, epische voorstellingen. Legenden --- 904 Culturele overblijfselen uit historische tijden. Antiquitates --- Culturele overblijfselen uit historische tijden. Antiquitates --- 930.85 Cultuurgeschiedenis. Kultuurgeschiedenis --- Cultuurgeschiedenis. Kultuurgeschiedenis --- Trésors d'églises --- Objets d'art médiévaux --- Émerveillement --- Mémoire --- Église catholique