dear pippa
there is a rather entertaining article by Patrick Geary "Sacred
Commodities: the circulation of medieval relics" in A.Appaduri (ed.) The
Social Life of Things (Cambridge U.P. 1986) which describes how bits of
saints were bartered, begged and stolen, and relates all of this to
Pierre Bourdieu's theory of Cultural Capital.
cheers
john arnold
Centre for Medieval Studies
Kings Manor
Exhibition Square
York YO1 2EP
ENGLAND
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