dear all
this point (boiling down bones, and Aquinas specifically) is discussed in
Paul Binski's *Medieval Death* - which I would recommend as reading,
as an exemplary piece of accessible but thoughtful cultural history.
cheers
john arnold
On Tue, 1 Apr 1997 [log in to unmask] wrote:
> The bones of Thomas Aquinas (d.1274) were extracted by the boiling-down
> method, due to the efforts of the Cistercian monks at whose monastery he
> expired (I forget the house: it is mentioned in the collected
> hagiographical documents edited and translated by K. Foster).
>
> Gary Dickson
> University of Edinburgh
>
>
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