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Furta Sacra: Thefts of Relics in the Central Middle Ages - Revised Edition / Edition 1
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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.