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 the Dutch by Peter Longbottom.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Touber, Jetze.

Contributor:

Longbottom, Peter, translator.

Series:

Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions ; 178.

Studies in medieval and reformation traditions, 1573-4188 ; VOLUME 178

Standardized Title:

Emblemen van lijdzaamheid. English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Christian hagiography.

Gallonio, Antonio, -1605.

Gallonio, Antonio.

Martyrdom--Christianity--History.

Martyrdom.

Church history.

Martyrdom--Christianity.

History.

Physical Description:

xiii, 339 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Boston : Brill, 2014.

Summary:

The Oratorian priest Antonio Gallonio (1556-1605) devoted his life to writing about saints. The thread running through his hagiogtaphical oeuvre was renunciation of this world, requiring humility, subservience and endurance. Yet he engaged 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 This book surveys Gallonio's published and unpublished works and his position in Roman society, to expose the tensions between a theocratic clergy and the self-assertion of skilled and scholarly professionals in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. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Introduction 1

1.1 Gallonio and the Oratory 2

1.2 Social Discipline and Intellectual History 14

1.3 Working Method 24

1.4 Vero figliuolo del nostro Padre 28

2 Hagiography and Historiography 45

2.1 Hagiography and Historia sacra 46

2.2 Gallonio's Sources 62

2.3 The Christian History of the Oratorians 83

2.4 Conclusion 98

3 Judicial Proceedings and Malicious Torture 101

3.1 Canonization Process 102

3.2 Confessors 125

3.3 Martyrs 138

3.4 Conclusion 151

4 Health and Holiness 155

4.1 Spiritual and Physical Health 156

4.2 Gallonio and the Physicians 170

4.3 The Body of the Saint 180

4.4 Conclusion 191

5 Martyrological Technology 193

5.1 Nobility, Emblems, Machinery 194

5.2 Technical Operation 210

5.3 Illustration 222

5.4 Conclusion 246

6 Collecting Material about Saints 251

6.1 Collection 252

6.2 Classification 268

6.3 Presentation 283

6.4 Conclusion 291

7 Epilogue 295.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [307]-328) and indexes.

Translation of: Emblemen van lijdzaamheid : recht, geneeskunde en techniek in het hagiografische werk van Antonio Gallonio (1556-1605).

ISBN:

9789004265134

9004265139

OCLC:

868298588