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The Pope's body / Agostino Paravicini-Bagliani ; translated by David S. Peterson.
Van Pelt Library BX1069.5 .P3713 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Paravicini Bagliani, Agostino.
- Standardized Title:
- Corpo del papa. English
- Language:
- English
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Papacy--History.
- Papacy.
- History.
- Human body--Religious aspects--Catholic Church--History of doctrines--Middle Ages, 600-1500.
- Human body.
- Catholic Church--Doctrines--History.
- Catholic Church.
- Human body--Religious aspects--Catholic Church--History of doctrines.
- Human body--Religious aspects--Catholic Church.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 396 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2000.
- Contents:
- Part I The Carnal Metaphor 3
- 1 Mortality and Transience 5
- The Short-Lived Popes 5
- "You'll Not See Peter's Years" 11
- A Warning Tomb and Rumbling Bones 19
- Papyrus Pillows 22
- Ashes 24
- Bands of Flax 29
- The Lateran Chairs 39
- Sedes Stercorata 44
- Sitting and Lying 45
- 2 Persona Christi 58
- Vicarius Christi 58
- Regality 59
- Ubi Papa, ibi Roma 60
- Pars Corporis Pape 63
- Christly Visibility 65
- Infallibility 67
- Christ's Two Natures 69
- Corpus Ecclesiae 70
- Mortality 71
- 3 Whiteness 75
- Wax Lambs 75
- The Golden Rose 82
- Red and White 83
- White and Black 92
- Part II The Pope's Death 97
- 4 New Spaces and Times 99
- Protecting the Palace 99
- Burial with Honor 107
- Burial and the Electoral Process 108
- Letters of Election 111
- A Time of Mourning 112
- Funeral Rites 114
- 5 The Corpse 122
- Nudity 122
- Display 132
- Embalming 133
- Burial 136
- Saintly Bodies 139
- 6 Perpetuity 144
- Novena 144
- Elections and Sackings 150
- College! College! 155
- Part III Corporeity 169
- 7 Recreatio Corporis 171
- Mobility and Holidays 171
- Fear of Contagion 179
- The Pleasure of Water 182
- 8 Cura Corporis 186
- Doctors and Prescriptions 186
- Appearances 194
- 9 Prolongatio Vitae 199
- Delaying Old Age 199
- Immortality 204
- Part IV Boniface VIII 213
- 10 The Body in Images 215
- Apostolicity and Plenitudo Potestatis 215
- Pope-Saint 219
- Imitatio Imperii 220
- Una et Sancta 221
- Jurisdiction and Unity 222
- 11 Physiognomy and Immortality 225
- Cura Corporis 225
- Elixir 227.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-373) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0226034372
- OCLC:
- 41592982
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