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

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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Räsänen, Marika,
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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Table of Contents:
  • 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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