1st Edition
Thomas Aquinas's Relics as Focus for Conflict and Cult in the Late Middle Ages The Restless Corpse
By Marika Räsänen
Copyright 2017
308 Pages
by
Routledge
308 Pages
by
Routledge
308 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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
Biography
Dr Marika Räsänen , Post-doctoral research fellow at the Turku Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, University of Turku.
