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Saints for Supper

Alexander Bevilacqua, 26 December 2024

Iconophages: A History of Ingesting Images 
by Jérémie Koering, translated by Nicholas Huckle.
Princeton, 480 pp., £30, October, 978 1 890951 27 6
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... dissolved the scrapings in water and drank the resulting brew. Her pain abated immediately. As Jérémie Koering puts it in his new book, ‘the woman was healed by eating an image.’From frescoes and printed devotional images to incised amulets, moulded gingerbread and the stamped Eucharistic host, a wide variety of images has, at various moments in ...

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