Benedict XIV and the Enlightenment

Art, Science, and Spirituality

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

Av 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 the arts and sciences helped restore Italy’s position as a center of intellectual and artistic innovation.Benedict XIV and the Enlightenment offers a broad and nuanced assessment of Benedict’s engagement with Enlightenment art, science, spirituality, and culture. The collection’s essays, written by international experts in the field, cover topics ranging from Benedict’s revisions to the Church’s procedures for beatification and sanctification to his patronage of women scientists and mathematicians at the university in Bologna, his birthplace.

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Utgivningsdatum2016-01-29
Mått159 x 235 x 25 mm
Vikt900 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieToronto Italian Studies
Antal sidor536
FörlagUniversity of Toronto Press
ISBN9781442637184

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Preface by Rebecca MessbargerIntroduction by Christopher M. S. JohnsPart I: Benedict XIV, Women and Progressive Catholicism1. Marta Cavazza: Benedict’s Patronage of Learned Women2. Paula Findlen: The Pope and the Englishwoman: Benedict XIV, Jane Squire, the Bologna Academy, and the Problem of Longitude3. Stephanie Kirk: Benedict XIV and New World Convent Reform Part II: Faith and Medicine in Catholic Enlightenment4. Rebecca Messbarger: The Art and Science of Human Anatomy in Benedict’s Vision of the Enlightenment Church5. Gianna Pomata: The Devil’s Advocate Among the Physicians: What Prospero Lambertini Learned from Medical Sources6. Fernando Vidal: Modernizing the Miraculous Body in Prospero Lambertini’s De Servorum Dei Part III: Benedict’s Response to Challenges to Church Authority7. John L. Heilbron: Benedict XIV and the Natural Sciences8. Maurice Finocchiaro: Benedict XIV and the Galileo Affair: Liberalization or Carelessness?9. Maria Pia Donato: Reorder and Restore: Benedict XIV, the Index and the Holy Office Part IV: Theology, Tradition and Institutions in the Era of Enlightened Catholicism10. Maria Teresa Fattori: Lambertini’s Treatises and the Cultural Project of Benedict XIV: Two Sides of the Same Policy11. Roberto Rusconi: Benedict XIV and the Holiness of Popes in the First Half of the Eighteenth Century12. Peter BjÖrn Kerber: Vicar of Christ and Alter Christus: Benedict XIV’s Della S. Messa Part V: Benedict XIV’s Transformation of the Public Sphere13. Paola Giuli: Prospero Lambertini and the Accademia degli Arcadi (1694–1708)14. Carole Paul: Benedict XIV’s Enlightened Patronage of the Capitoline Museum15. Christopher M. S. Johns: Papal Diplomacy and the Catholic Enlightenment: Benedict XIV’s Caffeaus in the Quirinal Gardens Part VI: Art and Architecture Across Italy and the World16. Jeffrey Collins: Pedagogy in Plaster: Ercole Lelli and Benedict XIV’s Gipsoteca at Bologna’s Instituto delle Scienze e delle Arti17. Kristina Kleutghen: The Art Ethnicity and Empire: Jesuit Art in China during the Papacy of Benedict XIV18. Tommaso Manfredi: Academic Practice and Roman Architecture during the Reign of Benedict XIV

‘Accompanied by a wonderful set of colour plates, this book remarkably succeeds in its attempt to read the ambiguities and nuances of the "Catholic Enlightenment" through the figure of Benedict XIV. Historians of science will find an abundance of materials to work on the relationships between Catholicism and the science on a global scale in the early modern period.’- Paolo Savoia (Metascience 24 October 2016) "This collection of eighteen articles offers undoubtedly the most comprehensive reappraisal of the pontificate of Prospero Lambertini, who became Benedict XIV (ruling from 1740 to 1758), that is currently available in English."- Simon Ditchfield, University of York (University of Toronto Quarterly, vol 87 3, Summer 2018)