Thomas Aquinas's Relics as Focus for Conflict and Cult in the Late Middle Ages
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Author_Marika Rasanen
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Catholic sainthood studies
Death of Thomas
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Hagiography
Hidden Corpse
material culture religion
medieval hagiography
medieval relic disputes
Memory
Patron Saint
posthumous veneration
relic cults
relics
southern Italy history
Thomas's Land
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- ISBN 9781041189572
- Weight: 570g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 01 Dec 2025
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
