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

This book offers a new way of looking at Saint Thomas Aquinas-not as a living man, but as a posthumous source of relics.

Auteur

Marika Räsänen is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Turku Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies at the University of Turku.

Contenu

List of illustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroductionI The Death of Thomas, 7 March 1274II The Miraculous Body at FossanovaIII Thomas's Land - Praesentia among the FaithfulIV Written Remembrance of the RemainsConclusion: The Endless StoryAppendix: De sancto Thome de AquinoAbbreviationsBibliographyIndex