Thefts of Relics in Italy : From Late Antiquity to the Central Middle Ages, 300–1150
With the birth of the cult of the saints, their relics became valuables whose possession would guarantee prestige, protection, and spiritual benefits to a town, church, or monastery. For this reason—at first with the aim of preserving the bodies of newly-executed martyrs from destruction and later o...
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Routledge
2025
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