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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 actual relics were not present, […]
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Relics, Identity, and Memory in Medieval Europe
M. Räsänen, G. Hartmann, E. J. Richards (eds.) Relics, Identity, and Memory in Medieval Europe explores the vital role of relics in the Middle Ages in creating community, identity, and memory. This volume contributes to current discussions of the place of relics in devotional life, politics, and identity-formation, by illustrating both the power which relics […]
