The man who crucified himself : : readings of a medical case in nineteenth-century Europe / / by Maria Bohmer.
The Man Who Crucified Himself is the history of a sensational nineteenth-century medical case. In 1805 a shoemaker called Mattio Lovat attempted to crucify himself in Venice. His act raised a furore, and the story spread across Europe. For the rest of the century Lovat’s case fuelled scientific and...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill/Rodopi,, [2019] |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Clio Medica
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (313 pages) |
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