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

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Thomas Aquinas's Relics as Focus for Conflict and Cult in the Late Middle Ages is written by Marika Räsänen and published by Taylor & Francis. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1040796397 (ISBN 10) and 9781040796399 (ISBN 13).

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.