Piety and Plague : : From Byzantium to the Baroque /

Piety and Plague : : From Byzantium to the Baroque / / ed. by Franco Mormando, Thomas Worcester.

Plague was one of the enduring facts of everyday life on the European continent, from earliest antiquity through the first decades of the eighteenth century. It represents one of the most important influences on the development of Europe's society and culture. In order to understand the changin...

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MitwirkendeR:
Barker, Sheila,
Berger, Pamela,
Eamon, William,
Gertsman, Elina,
Hipp, Elisabeth,
Kaldellis, Anthony,
Mormando, Franco,
Rittgers, Ronald K.,
Worcester, Thomas,
HerausgeberIn:
Mormando, Franco,
Worcester, Thomas,
Place / Publishing House:University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021]
©2008
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Sixteenth Century Essays & Studies ; 78
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Physical Description:1 online resource (344 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Illustrations
  • Preface
  • 1 The Literature of Plague and the Anxieties of Piety in Sixth-Century Byzantium
  • 2 Mice, Arrows, and Tumors. MEDIEVAL PLAGUE ICONOGRAPHY NORTH OF THE ALPS
  • 3 Visualizing Death. MEDIEVAL PLAGUES AND THE MACABRE
  • 4 The Making of a Plague Saint. SAINT SEBASTIAN 'S IMAGERY AND CULT BEFORE THE COUNTER -REFORMATION
  • 5 Protestants and Plague. THE CASE OF THE 1562/63 PEST IN NÜRNBERG
  • 6 The Canker Friar. PIETY AND INTRIGUE IN AN E RA OF NEW DISEASES
  • 7 Poussin's The Plague at Ashdod. A WORK OF A RT IN MULTIPLE CONTEXTS
  • 8 Plague as Spiritual Medicine and Medicine as Spiritual Metaphor. THREE TREATISES BY ETIENNE BINET , S.J. (1569-1639)
  • 9 Pestilence, Apostasy, and Heresy in Seventeenth-Century Rome. DECIPHERING MICHAEL SWEERTS'S PLAGUE IN AN ANCIENT CITY
  • Contributors
  • Index

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