Thomas Aquinas's relics as focus for conflict and cult in the late Middle Ages : the restless corpse
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Thomas Aquinas's relics as focus for conflict and cult in the late Middle Ages : the restless corpse
（Crossing boundaries : Turku medieval and early modern studies）
Amsterdam University Press, c2017
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-300) and index
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Description
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 Rasanen 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, Rasanen 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.
Table of Contents
List of illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction I The Death of Thomas, 7 March 1274 II The Miraculous Body at Fossanova III Thomas's Land - Praesentia among the Faithful IV Written Remembrance of the Remains Conclusion: The Endless Story Appendix: De sancto Thome de Aquino Abbreviations Bibliography Index
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