Pious Postmortems : Anatomy, Sanctity, and the Catholic Church in Early Modern Europe / Bradford A. Bouley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bouley, Bradford A., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Catholic Church--Europe--History--16th century.

Catholic Church.

Catholic Church--Europe--History--17th century.

Canonization--History--16th century.

Canonization.

Canonization--History--17th century.

Autopsy--Europe--History--17th century.

Autopsy.

Europe.

Genre:

History

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (214 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

In Pious Postmortems, Bradford A. Bouley considers the examinations performed on reputedly holy corpses in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries at the request of the Catholic Church. Bouley concludes that neither religious nor scientific truths were self-evident but rather negotiated through a complex array of local and broader interests.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Introduction

1. Expertise and Early Modern Sanctity

2. A New Criterion for Sanctity

3. Negotiating Incorruption

4. Medicine and Authority: Creating Elite Asceticism

5. Engendering Sanctity

Conclusion

Appendix: Postmortems on Prospective Saints

Notes

Index

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Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Jul 2018)

ISBN:

9780812294446

0812294440

OCLC:

1007924893