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Pious Postmortems : Anatomy, Sanctity, and the Catholic Church in Early Modern Europe.

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 co...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bouley, Bradford
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (223 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780812294446
0812294440