I just realised I've been mis-citing my own monograph for the past 5 years. EVERYWHERE.
Turns out Palgrave MacMillan is in Cham. Not Chur.
I'll see myself out now.
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Homer Disappears Into A Hedge
Alt: Homer Disappears Into A Hedge. Verena is embarrassed.
![Screengrab of a Word document, the search term "decompose" in the Find box. The article is about "Moving Marvels from Venice to Ethiopia, ca. 1400 CE".
The main text file reads: "The Coptic History of the Patriarchs, meanwhile, specifies that the ‘Frankish’ king, deeply moved by Dawit’s show of faith, first and foremost sent out a fragment of the Wood of the Cross set in a reliquary ‘cross of gold ornamented with precious stones’, as well as ‘magnificent’ garments and other religious treasures, among them a reliquary holding one of ‘the children whom Herod the hypocrite had slain’. The relics, the History specifies, travelled ahead of the other gifts via Alexandria and Cairo, where they were much admired and blessed by Coptic patriarch Matthew.
The Gǝʿǝz Homily matches the History’s account and expands it considerably, providing by far the most detailed account of things subsequently brought from the Adriatic to the Horn of Africa. First among these gifts is the relic of the True Cross — unsurprising, seeing that the relic is narrated as having occasioned the whole venture, and the composition of the text itself. .... The remaining forty folios of the Homily detail wagonloads of precious objects that had accompanied the Cross — gifts the History had only hinted at, and things that could well have been bought with the stately sum set aside by the Great Council of Venice.
The footnote with "decomposed" reads: "Notably, the Holy Infant relic — with the child’s body preserved in ‘good condition […] from the days of our Master Christ up till now’, seeing that not even ‘one of its fingers was decomposed’ — drew great awe in Egypt; compare (Evetts 1970, 249–50)."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7twkuxslma2ezt5vaklzjqgd/bafkreidnnizqks3eauyq5p66o2svrn6al5wmgaj2i2ujsgnpf3minv5mv4)
