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One would have to update his eighteenth-century citations and verify others not accompanied by reference to specific passages, but Muratori's essay on these practices in late antiquity (both swearing on relics and swearing on the Gospels are attested to from Christian antiquity) and in the early Middle Ages could be helpful. See:
http://www.classicitaliani.it/muratori/dissert38.htm
Best,
John Dillon
On Tuesday, January 2, 2007, at 12:10 pm, Jonathan Elukin wrote:
> I am beginning a project on how medieval people took oaths. We know, of
> course, that they either swore oaths over Gospel books or over relics.
> I am
> interested in studying the interrelationship of these two practices.
> Did one
> take precedence over the other? Were certain oaths taken over the Gospels
> and others over relics? Was there a chronology where oaths over Scripture
> displaced oaths over relics? I would be grateful for any suggestions of
> scholarly works touching on this issue or of references to accounts of
> oath
> taking involving either the Gospels or relics. Many thanks in advance
> for
> any help or guidance.
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