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200 1. $a The stolen bones of St. John of Matha $b Texte imprimé $e forgery, theft, and sainthood in the seventeenth century $f A. Katie Harris
214 .0 $a University Park (Pa.) $c The Pennsylvania State University Press
214 .4 $d C 2023
215 .. $a 1 vol. (xi-229 pages) $c illustrations $d 24 cm
225 |. $a Iberian encounter and exchange, 475-1755 $v vol. 10
300 .. $a Bibliogr. p. 197-220. Index
330 .. $a "On the night of March 18, 1655, two Spanish friars broke into a church to steal the
bones of the founder of their religious institution, the Order of the Most Holy Trinity.
This bookinvestigates this little-known incident of relic theft and the lengthy legal
case that followed, together with the larger questions that surround the remains of
saints in seventeenth-century Catholic Europe. Drawing on a wealth of manuscript and
print sources from the era, A. Katie Harris uses the case of St. John of Matha's stolen
remains to explore the roles played by saints' relics, the anxieties invested in them,
their cultural meanings, and the changing modes of thought with which early modern
Catholics approached them. While in theory a relic's authenticity and identity might
be proved by supernatural evidence, in practice early modern Church authorities often
reached for proofs grounded in the material, human world―preferences that were representative
of the standardizing and streamlining of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century saint-making.
Harris examines how Matha's advocates deployed material and documentary proofs, locating
them within a framework of Scholastic concepts of individuation, identity, change,
and persistence, and applying moral certainty to accommodate the inherent uncertainty
of human evidence and relic knowledge. Engaging and accessible, The Stolen Bones of
St. John of Matha raises an array of important questions surrounding relic identity
and authenticity in seventeenth-century Europe. It will be of interest to students,
scholars, and casual readers interested in European history, religious history, material
culture, and Renaissance studies."
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