10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «OSTENSORIES»
Discover the use of
ostensories in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
ostensories and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Shock of Medievalism
Beginning in the early thirteenth century, ostensories, crystal cylinders in which a
relic rested, began to appear, marking a shift away from the presentation of relics
in reliquaries of the type that mimicked by their design the physical form of the ...
2
The Middle Ages: Treasures from the Cloisters and the ...
Ostensories may stand on the altar, and they may also be carried in solemn
processions, especially in that of the Feast of Corpus Christi. Sometimes they are
called monstrances, and it is difficult to differentiate between the two. Ostensories
...
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Vera K. Ostoia, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), 1970
3
Abrégé de l'histoire ecclésiastique, civile, et politique de ...
... a glass-stand, containing curious ostensories, emb0ssed dishes, and a night-
cap formerly worn by Charles V. Returning to the first room of this suite, we find,
on the right hand, the Chambre de la Reine Blanche, alluded to above,
containing ...
4
Galignani's New Paris Guide ... Arranged on an entirely new plan
... painted, and appear through apertures cut, according to shape, in thin gilt
brass leaves, which cover the rest of the surface. In the centre is a glass-stand,
containing curious ostensories, embossed dishes, and a night-cap formerly worn
by ...
A. and W. Galignani and Co, 1858
5
Collected Poems and Other Verse
A voice, a distant evocation of the past, is it mine, is it ready to utter incantations?
40 still lingering in the yellow folds of thought, drifting, antique, like incense-
scented cloth above a chaos of long-cold ostensories, through all the ancient
holes ...
6
Cobbett's Political Register
Chalices, candlesticks, crucifixes, pixes, ostensories, images, shrines, and
reliquaries *, all have been converted into current coin ! Baptized belis have been
transformed into cannon bullets, and consecrated churches to armories and ...
7
A Journey from London to Genoa,: Through England, Portugal, ...
Then there are tabernacles, shrines, ostensories, lamps, candlesticks, crosiers,
mitres, chalices, crucifixes, reliquaries, &c. &c. some of gold and some of silver,
almost all sparkling with many large jewels of the most precious kind, besides ...
Giuseppe Marco Antonio Baretti, 1770
8
European Glass in the J. Paul Getty Museum: Catalogue of the ...
New York, The Metropolitan Museum ofArt, 1975.1.1 2 1 2a—b, The Robert
Lehman Collection. for a variety of Objects, including house altars, writing boxes,
jewelry cases, reliquaries, osculatories, ostensories, and clocks, but he seems to
...
Catherine Hess, Timothy Husband, 1998
9
Travels Through Germany, Bohemia, Hungary, Switzerland, ...
A fight of the treasury costs four or five Picdmontese livres; it is ex- Treasury «/ tb*
tremely rich, and indeed contains a prodigious number of gold and silver cath,
draL vessels, bustos, ostensories, statues, rings, chalices, crucifixes, &c. of which
...
Johann Georg Keyssler, 1756
10
Women and Gender in Medieval Europe: An Encyclopedia
The use of crystal in ostensories permitted visual communion with the relics—a
facet of the phenomenon of increasing personal devotional interaction. The value
of reliquaries often exceeded the cost of the buildings in which they were housed
...
