Sacred Skin: The Legend of St. Bartholomew in Spanish Art and Literature
- Submitting institution
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University of Durham
- Unit of assessment
- 26 - Modern Languages and Linguistics
- Output identifier
- 118880
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.1163/9789004419384
- Publisher
- Brill
- ISBN
- 9789004407800
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2020
- URL
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https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004419384
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Double-weighted statement
- Sacred Skin is the product of nine years’ research and is 140,000 words in length. The book offers the first systematic evaluation of the dissemination and development of the cult of St Bartholomew in Spain. Exploring the paradoxes of hagiographic representation and their ambivalent effect on the observer, the book focuses on literary and visual testimonies produced from the emergence of a distinctive vernacular voice through to the formalization of Bartholomew’s saintly identity and his transformation into a key expression of Iberian consciousness. A key feature is the inclusion of a series of previously unpublished versions of the saint’s passion.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Non-English
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