Thomas Aquinas's Relics as Focus for Conflict and Cult in the Late Middle Ages: The Restless Corpse

This book offers a new way of looking at Saint Thomas Aquinas-not as a living man, but as a posthumous source of relics. Marika Räsänen delves deep into the strange relationship between Aquinas's physical remains and the devotional moments they enabled-in many cases in situations where the actu...

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Main Author: Räsänen, Marika (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Amsterdam Amsterdam University Press 2017
In:Year: 2017
Series/Journal:Crossing Boundaries: Turku Medieval and Early Modern Studies
Further subjects:B Generals / HISTORY
B Death
B Death Religious aspects Catholic Church
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