Thomas Aquinas's Relics as Focus for Conflict and Cult in the Late Middle Ages : : The Restless Corpse / / Marika Räsänen.
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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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter AUP eBook Package 2016-2018 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2017] ©2017 |
Year of Publication: | 2017 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Crossing Boundaries: Turku Medieval and Early Modern Studies
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (308 p.) :; 12 halfplates, 1 line drawing |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. The Death of Thomas, 7 March 1274 -- 2. The Miraculous Body in Fossanova -- 3. Thomas's Land-Praesentia among the Faithful -- 4. Written Remembrance of the Remains -- Conclusion: The Endless Story -- Appendix 1: DE SANCTO Thome de Aquino -- Abbreviations -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Summary: | 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 actual relics were not present, but were recreated verbally, pictorially, or allegorically. Both the actual relics and these extended manifestations of them, Räsänen shows, were equally real to the medieval spectator, though the question of the material presence of Aquinas's remains became increasingly important over time amid the political tumult of southern Italy. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9789048527373 9783110667318 9783110606447 9783110662849 |
DOI: | 10.1515/9789048527373?locatt=mode:legacy |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Marika Räsänen. |