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Furta Sacra: Thefts of Relics in the Central Middle Ages - Revised Edition
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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 acts, asking how the relics were perceived and why the thefts met with the approval of medieval Christians.
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Scholars of Buddhism gradually began to incorporate insights and new approaches to relics pioneered by Peter Brown, Carolyn Bynum, and Patrick Geary.
“Scholars of Buddhism gradually began to incorporate the insights and new approaches to relics that were pioneered by figures like Peter Brown (1981), Carolyn Bynum (1995), and Patrick Geary (1978).”
From Relic Wary : Facets of Buddhist Relic Veneration in East Asia and Recent Scholarship (2017) · cites this paper as Geary 1978
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Relic Wary : Facets of Buddhist Relic Veneration in East Asia and Recent Scholarship
James, R. (2017) · International Journal of Buddhist Thought and Culture · doi:10.16893/ijbtc.2017.12.27.2.15 · Cited by 1
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- Authors
- Geary, P. J.
- Corresponding author
- Geary, Patrick J.
- ORCID
- Geary, Patrick J.
- Venue
- Princeton University Press eBooks
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Published
- 1978-01-01
- OpenAlex
- W4236847350
- Cited by
- 293
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 25.67
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Princeton University Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › Medieval Literature and History
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › Historical and Religious Studies of Rome
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › Medieval History and Crusades
- Keywords
- sacred relics, medieval monks, merchants, Roman catacombs, medieval Christianity, sociocultural context
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