Abstract
Abstract This part of the book summarizes the findings presented in the preceding chapters and in particular traces the chronological development of the cult of relics. It also shows this phenomenon against a wide background of the new Christian religiosity which started to emerge in the Mediterranean in the fourth century and which profoundly changed Christian attitudes to space and time and the material world. The cult of relics was an element of this new religiosity, but it can be fully understood only when studied together with its other aspects, such as the idea of the Holy Land and the practice of pilgrimages, the rise of monasticism and monastic holiness, the development of the Christian calendar, and the habit of feasting.
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