Piety and plague : from Byzantium to the Baroque / edited by Franco Mormando, Thomas Worcester.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mormando, Franco, editor.

Worcester, Thomas, editor.

Series:

Sixteenth century essays & studies ; Volume 78.

Sixteenth century essays & studies series ; Volume 78

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Piety--History.

Piety.

Plague--Religious aspects--History.

Plague.

Plague--Europe--History--16th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (193 p.)

Place of Publication:

Kirksville, Missouri : Truman State University Press, [2007]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Plague was one of the enduring facts of everyday life on the European continent, from earliest antiquity through the first decades of the eighteenth century. It represents one of the most important influences on the development of Europe’s society and culture. In order to understand the changing circumstances of the political, economic, ecclesiastical, artistic, and social history of that continent, it is important to understand epidemic disease and society’s response to it.To date, the largest portion of scholarship about plague has focused on its political, economic, demographic, and medical aspects. This interdisciplinary volume offers greater coverage of the religious and the psychological dimensions of plague and of European society’s response to it through many centuries and over a wide geographical terrain, including Byzantium. This research draws extensively upon a wealth of primary sources, both printed and painted, and includes ample bibliographical reference to the most important secondary sources, providing much new insight into how generations of Europeans responded to this dread disease.

Contents:

The literature of plague and the anxieties of piety in sixth-century Byzantium / Anthony Kaldellis

Mice, arrows, and tumors : medieval plague iconography north of the Alps / Pamela Berger

Visualizing death : medieval plagues and the macabre / Elina Gertsman

The making of a plague saint : Saint Sebastian's imagery and cult before the Counter-Reformation / Sheila Barker

Protestants and plague : the case of the 1562/63 pest in Nuremberg / Ronald K. Rittgers

The Canker Friar : piety and intrigue in an era of new diseases / William Eamon

Poussin's the Plague at Ashdod : a work of art in multiple contexts / Elisabeth Hipp

Plague as spiritual medicine and medicine as spiritual metaphor : three treatises by Etienne Binet, S.J. (1569-1639) / Thomas Worcester

Pestilence, apostasy, and heresy in seventeenth-century Rome : deciphering Michael Sweerts' Plague in an ancient city / Franco Mormando.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-61248-008-X

1-61248-007-1

OCLC:

694147693