Furta Sacra : : Thefts of Relics in the Central Middle Ages - Revised Edition / / Patrick J. Geary.

To obtain sacred relics, medieval monks plundered tombs, avaricious merchants raided churches, and relic-mongers scoured the Roman catacombs. In a revised edition of Furta Sacra, Patrick Geary considers the social and cultural context for these acts, asking how the relics were perceived and why the...

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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2011]
©1978
Year of Publication:2011
Edition:Revised edition with a New preface by the author
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (248 p.)
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --   |t Contents --   |t Preface to the 1990 Edition --   |t Preface --   |t Abbreviations --   |t CHAPTER ONE. Relics and Saints in the Central Middle Ages --   |t CHAPTER TWO. The Cult of Relics in Carolingian Europe --   |t CHAPTER THREE. The Professionals --   |t CHAPTER FOUR. Monastic Thefts --   |t CHAPTER FIVE. Urban Thefts --   |t CHAPTER SIX. Justifications --   |t CHAPTER SEVEN. Conclusions --   |t APPENDIX A: Critique of Texts --   |t APPENDIX B: Handlist of Relic Thefts --   |t Notes --   |t Bibliography --   |t Index 
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