Introduction Silvia Cavicchioli and Luigi Provero Part I: Norm and Praxis in Late Antiquity 1. An Ignominious Burial: The Treatment of the Body of Jesus of Nazareth Andrea Nicolotti 2. The Cult of Relics in the Late Roman Empire: Legal Aspects Maria G. Castello Part II: Cults, Circulations and Battles for Relics 3. A Liquid Miracle: The Origins of the Liquefaction Ritual of the Blood of Saint Januarius Francesco Paolo de Ceglia 4. The Circulation of Roman Relics in the Savoy States: Dynamics of Devotion and Political Uses in the Modern and Contemporary Ages Paolo Cozzo 5. Jewish Intellectuals and the "Martyrdom" of Simon of Trent in Habsburg Restoration Italy: Anti-Semitism, Relics and Historical Criticism Emanuele D'Antonio 6. Some Observations on the Itinerary of Don Bosco's Relics Mauro Forno Part III: Collective Spaces of Death 7.

Cemeteries and Villages in the Thirteenth-Century Countryside Luigi Provero 8. Within, Beneath and Outside the City: The Space of the Dead in Early Modern Naples (Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries) Diego Carnevale 9. Bodies "as Objects Preserved in Museums": The Capuchin Catacombs in Palermo Natale Spineto Part IV: Public Uses of Human Remains Between Politics, Religion and Science 10. "Roasted and Eaten": The Neapolitan Counter-Revolution of 1799 and the Use of Jacobin Remains Luca Addante 11. "You Can Tell a Man from His Head": The Study and Preservation of the Skulls of Celebrated Italians in the Nineteenth Century Simone Baral 12. The Remains of the Vanquished: Bodies and Martyrs of the Roman Republic from the Risorgimento to Fascism Silvia Cavicchioli 13. The Medicalisation of the Corpse in Liberal Italy: National Legislation and the Case of Turin Silvano Montaldo 14. Simulacra of Eternal Life: Ostensions, Exhibitions and the Concealment of Human Remains Maria Teresa Milicia.