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

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by Marika Rasanen

Book Format
Hardback
Publisher
Amsterdam University Press
Published
February 2017
Weight
610g

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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 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 even present, but were only re-created 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.