Benedict XIV and the Enlightenment : : Art, Science, and Spirituality /

Benedict XIV and the Enlightenment : : Art, Science, and Spirituality / / Rebecca Messbarger, Christopher Johns, Philip Gavitt.

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Pope Benedict XIV Lambertini (r. 1740-58) was one of the driving forces behind the Italian Enlightenment of the eighteenth century. His campaign to reconcile faith and empirical science, re-launch a dialogue between the Church and the European intellectual community, and expand papal patronage of th...

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Gavitt, Philip ,
Johns, Christopher ,
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Johns, Christopher ,
Messbarger, Rebecca,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017]
©2016
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Toronto Italian Studies
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Physical Description:1 online resource (536 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contributors
  • Preface: Interpreting a Papacy, Revising an Age
  • Introduction: The Scholars' Pope: Benedict XIV and the Catholic Enlightenment / Johns, Christopher M.S.
  • Part I: Benedict XIV, Women, and Progressive Catholicism
  • 1. Benedict's Patronage of Learned Women / Cavazza, Marta
  • 2. The Pope and the Englishwoman: Benedict XIV, Jane Squire, the Bologna Academy, and the Problem of Longitude / Findlen, Paula
  • 3. Benedict XIV and New World Convent Reform / Kirk, Stephanie
  • Part II: Faith and Medicine in the Catholic Enlightenment
  • 4. The Art and Science of Human Anatomy in Benedict's Vision of the Enlightenment Church / Messbarger, Rebecca
  • 5. The Devil's Advocate among the Physicians: What Prospero Lambertini Learned from Medical Sources / Pomata, Gianna
  • 6. Modernizing the Miraculous Body in Prospero Lambertini's De servorum Dei / Vidal, Fernando
  • Part III: Benedict's Response to Challenges to Church Authority
  • 7. Benedict XIV and the Natural Sciences / Heilbron, John L.
  • 8. Benedict XIV and the Galileo Affair: Liberalization or Carelessness? / Finocchiaro, Maurice A.
  • 9. Reorder and Restore: Benedict XIV, the Index, and the Holy Office / Donato, Maria Pia
  • Part IV: Theology, Tradition, and Institutions in the Era of Enlightened Catholicism
  • 10. Lambertini's Treatises and the Cultural Project of Benedict XIV: Two Sides of the Same Policy / Fattori, Maria Teresa
  • 11. Benedict XIV and the Holiness of the Popes in the First Half of the Eighteenth Century / Rusconi, Roberto
  • 12. Vicar of Christ and Alter Christus: Benedict XIV's Della S. Messa / Kerber, Peter Björn
  • Part V: Benedict XIV's Transformation of the Public Sphere
  • 13. Prospero Lambertini and the Accademia degli Arcadi (1694-1708) / Giuli, Paola
  • 14. Benedict XIV's Enlightened Patronage of the Capitoline Museum / Paul, Carole
  • 15. Papal Diplomacy and the Catholic Enlightenment: Benedict XIV's Caffeaus in the Quirinal Gardens / Johns, Christopher M.S.
  • Part VI: Art and Architecture across Italy and the World
  • 16. Pedagogy in Plaster: Ercole Lelli and Benedict XIV's Gipsoteca at Bologna's Instituto delle Scienze e delle Arti / Collins, Jeffrey
  • 17. Ethnicity, Empire, and "Europe": Jesuit Art in China during the Papacy of Benedict XIV / Kleutghen, Kristina
  • 18. Academic Practice and Roman Architecture during the Reign of Benedict XIV / Manfredi, Tommaso
  • Index

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