Furta Sacra: Thefts of Relics in the Central Middle Ages - Revised Edition by Patrick J. Geary

Furta Sacra: Thefts of Relics in the Central Middle Ages - Revised Edition

Patrick J. Geary

248 pages first pub 1977 (editions)

nonfiction history religion informative slow-paced
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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 ac...

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