Irina Dumitrescu

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The European Review of Books is a magazine of culture and ideas, in print and online, in English and in a writer’s own tongue.

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Irina Dumitrescu

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Irina Dumitrescu is an essayist and professor of medieval literature at the University of Bonn. She is the author of The Experience of Education in Anglo-Saxon Literature (Cambridge, 2018) and the editor of Rumba Under Fire: The Arts of Survival from West Point to Delhi (Punctum, 2016).

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The void that fills the void

Irina Dumitrescu

Relics, and the places devoted to their worship, dotted the map of Europe and the Middle East. Saints, like today’s celebrities, were both omnipresent and faraway, once-vulnerable people who became something more than human.

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