medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
> Besides that: all these reliques are fakes, so why act as if we
> believe in them and write serious studies about them, let alone make
> documentaries about them with lots of question marks. Balderdash and
> piffle, except as a religio-cultural phenomenon.
What I find fascinating is that such quandries as we are discussing here, concerning the
legitimacy of relics, cropped up quite often in the Middle Ages, as well, and the standard
response from the person in the street (I'm basing this on my casual memory of pilgrims'
accounts) seems to have been a shrug of the shoulders and a "Let God decide" (since we
can't).
Cheers,
Jim Bugslag
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