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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Table of Contents:
- Cover; contents; preface to the 1990 edition; preface; abbreviations; chapter one: relics and saints in the central middle ages; chapter two: the cult of relics in carolingian europe; chapter three: the professionals; chapter four: monastic thefts; chapter five: urban thefts; chapter six: justifications; chapter seven: conclusions; appendix a: critique of texts; appendix b: handlist of relic thefts; notes; bibliography; index.