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📢 New blog alert! MEMOs News Editor Jessica Minieri (@jessicaminieri.bsky.social) takes us into the fascinating world of bodily relics in The Body of a Crusader King: The Relics of Louis IX of France between Tunisia and Sicily.
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Upon Louis’s death in 1270, his bones, entrails, and heart were dissected and boiled to ensure that they could be moved back to France and buried locally.