Law, medicine, and engineering in the cult of the saints in counter-Reformation Rome : : the hagiographical works of Antonio Gallonio, 1556-1605 / / by Jetze Touber ; translated from Dutch by Peter Longbottom.
The Oratorian priest Antonio Gallonio (1556-1605) devoted his life to writing about saints. The thread running through his hagiographical oeuvre was renunciation of this world: humility, subservience and endurance. Yet he engaged with the expertise of lay people, jurists, physicians and engineers, s...
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| Superior document: | Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions, volume 178 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Boston : : Brill,, 2014. |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions ;
v. 178. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (353 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- 1. I ntroduction
- 2. Hagiography and Historiography
- 3. Judicial Proceedings and Malicious Torture
- 4. Health and Holiness
- 5. Martyrological Technology
- 6. Collecting Material about Saints
- 7. Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index of Names
- Index of Places
- Index of Subjects.