medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
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> Susanna Gregory has The Hand of Justice, which turns on a detached =
> human hand being taken for a relic.
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> To say nothing of Sharan Newman's "The Wandering Arm" and Ellis =
> Peters: "A Morbid Taste for Bones"
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And "Relics", by Pip Vaughan-Hughes, which deals with the same trade and has
a deeply appropriate denouement. And of course the four titles by Sylvian
Hamilton, whose first ("The Bone Pedlar") begins: In the crypt of the
monastery church the monks were boiling their bishop.
It's the kind of occupation that is going to hold a horrid fascination for
the modern mind, after all.
Pat
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