Del 178 i serien Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions

Law, Medicine and Engineering in the Cult of the Saints in Counter-Reformation Rome: The Hagiographical Works of Antonio Gallonio, 1556-1605

Inbunden, Engelska, 2014

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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 This book surveys Gallonio’s published and unpublished works and his position in Roman society, to expose the tensions between a theocratic clergy and the self-assertion of skilled and scholarly professionals in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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2014-01-30
Mått155 x 235 x 26 mm
Vikt674 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieStudies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions
Antal sidor340
FörlagBrill
ISBN9789004265134

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AcknowledgementsAbbreviationsIllustrations1. Introduction1.1 Gallonio and the Oratory1.2 Social discipline and intellectual history1.3 Working method1.4 Vero figliuolo del nostro Padre2. Hagiography and Historiography2.1 Hagiography and Historia sacra2.2 Gallonio’s sources2.3 The Christian history of the Oratorians2.4 Conclusion3. Judicial Proceedings and Malicious Torture3.1 Canonization process3.2 Confessors3.3 Martyrs3.4 Conclusion4. Health and Holiness4.1 Spiritual and physical health4.2 Gallonio and the physicians4.3 The body of the saint4.4 Conclusion5. Martyrological Technology5.1 Nobility, emblems, machinery5.2 Technical operation5.3 Illustration5.4 Conclusion6. Collecting Material about Saints6.1 Collection6.2 Classification6.3 Presentation6.4 Conclusion7. EpilogueBibliographyWorks by Antonio GallonioPrimary SourcesSecondary WorksIndex

“In this clear and insightful new study Jetze Touber brings together Gallonio’s disparate (manuscript and in print) writings in the field of hagiography. This corpus, written in both Latin and Italian, was aimed at a wide public and Touber does a marvelous job, showing how Italian and Latin versions were written with different audiences in mind.”Jan Machielsen, Oxford. In: The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Vol. 66, No. 2 (April 2015), p. 437.