Furta Sacra : Thefts of Relics in the Central Middle Ages. (Revised Edition).
To obtain sacred relics, medieval monks plundered tombs, avaricious merchants raided churches, and relic-mongers scoured the Roman catacombs. In a revised edition of Furta Sacra, Patrick Geary considers the social and cultural context for these acts, asking how the relics were perceived and why the...
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2008.
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