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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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| Language: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
2017.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of 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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