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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Böhmer, Maria, 1950- author. The man who crucified himself : readings of a medical case in nineteenth-century Europe / by Maria Bohmer. Leiden ; Boston : Brill/Rodopi, [2019] 1 online resource (313 pages) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references. Front Matter -- Copyright -- Illustrations -- Introduction -- The Man Who Crucified Himself -- The Storia della Crocifissione as an Epistemic Genre -- Making the Case Travel: Translation, Media, Reading -- Professional Readings: Religion -- Professional Readings: Madness -- Professional Readings: Suicide -- Popular Readings: Moral Education through Literary Entertainment -- Epilogue -- Back Matter -- Bibliography. 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 popular debates on medicine, madness, suicide and religion. Drawing on Italian, German, English and French sources, Maria Böhmer traces the multiple readings of the case and identifies various 'interpretive communities'. Her meticulously researched study sheds new light on Lovat’s case and offers fresh insights on the case narrative as a genre - both epistemic and literary. Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed. Medicine Europe History 19th century Case studies. 90-04-35359-3 Clio Medica 97. |
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