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Law, Medicine and Engineering in the Cult of the Saints in Counter-Reformation Rome: The Hagiographical Works of Antonio Gallonio, 1556-1605
Contributor(s): Touber, Jetze (Author)

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 ISBN: 9004265139     ISBN-13: 9789004265134
Publisher: Brill
OUR PRICE: $176.70  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: January 2014
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BISAC Categories:
- History | Europe - Renaissance
- Religion | Christianity - Catholic
- Religion | Mysticism
Dewey: 282.092
LCCN: 2013045974
Series: Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.4" W x 9.4" L (1.50 lbs) 354 pages
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
 
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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, so as to appeal to their interests and convert them. In order to emphasize how saints endured torture, healed disease and exercised piety rather than ingenuity, Gallonio ventured into those secular disciplines, even if he did not endorse them. This book surveys Gallonio's published and unpublished works and his position in Roman society, to expose the tensions between a theocratic clergy and the self-assertion of skilled and scholarly professionals in the Italian Counter-Reformation.
 
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