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

The Restless Corpse

Marika Räsänen (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

308 Seiten

2017
Pallas Publications (Verlag)
978-90-8964-873-0 (ISBN)

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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 relics and these extended manifestations of them, Räsänen 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.

Dr Marika Räsänen , Post-doctoral research fellow at the Turku Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, University of Turku.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	02.04.2017
Reihe/Serie	Crossing Boundaries: Turku Medieval and Early Modern Studies
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	730 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Christentum
ISBN-10	90-8964-873-9 / 9089648739
ISBN-13	978-90-8964-873-0 / 9789089648730
Zustand	Neuware