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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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999 |
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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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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface to the 1990 Edition
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- CHAPTER ONE. Relics and Saints in the Central Middle Ages
- CHAPTER TWO. The Cult of Relics in Carolingian Europe
- CHAPTER THREE. The Professionals
- CHAPTER FOUR. Monastic Thefts
- CHAPTER FIVE. Urban Thefts
- CHAPTER SIX. Justifications
- CHAPTER SEVEN. Conclusions
- APPENDIX A: Critique of Texts
- APPENDIX B: Handlist of Relic Thefts
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index