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Piety and Plague : From Byzantium to the Baroque / ed. by Franco Mormando, Thomas Worcester.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Sixteenth Century Essays & Studies ; 78Publisher: University Park, PA : Penn State University Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2008Description: 1 online resource (344 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780271090771
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 362.196/92320094 22
LOC classification:
  • RC178.A1 P54 2007eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Illustrations -- Preface -- 1 The Literature of Plague and the Anxieties of Piety in Sixth-Century Byzantium -- 2 Mice, Arrows, and Tumors. MEDIEVAL PLAGUE ICONOGRAPHY NORTH OF THE ALPS -- 3 Visualizing Death. MEDIEVAL PLAGUES AND THE MACABRE -- 4 The Making of a Plague Saint. SAINT SEBASTIAN 'S IMAGERY AND CULT BEFORE THE COUNTER -REFORMATION -- 5 Protestants and Plague. THE CASE OF THE 1562/63 PEST IN NÜRNBERG -- 6 The Canker Friar. PIETY AND INTRIGUE IN AN E RA OF NEW DISEASES -- 7 Poussin's The Plague at Ashdod. A WORK OF A RT IN MULTIPLE CONTEXTS -- 8 Plague as Spiritual Medicine and Medicine as Spiritual Metaphor. THREE TREATISES BY ETIENNE BINET , S.J. (1569-1639) -- 9 Pestilence, Apostasy, and Heresy in Seventeenth-Century Rome. DECIPHERING MICHAEL SWEERTS'S PLAGUE IN AN ANCIENT CITY -- Contributors -- Index
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.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Illustrations -- Preface -- 1 The Literature of Plague and the Anxieties of Piety in Sixth-Century Byzantium -- 2 Mice, Arrows, and Tumors. MEDIEVAL PLAGUE ICONOGRAPHY NORTH OF THE ALPS -- 3 Visualizing Death. MEDIEVAL PLAGUES AND THE MACABRE -- 4 The Making of a Plague Saint. SAINT SEBASTIAN 'S IMAGERY AND CULT BEFORE THE COUNTER -REFORMATION -- 5 Protestants and Plague. THE CASE OF THE 1562/63 PEST IN NÜRNBERG -- 6 The Canker Friar. PIETY AND INTRIGUE IN AN E RA OF NEW DISEASES -- 7 Poussin's The Plague at Ashdod. A WORK OF A RT IN MULTIPLE CONTEXTS -- 8 Plague as Spiritual Medicine and Medicine as Spiritual Metaphor. THREE TREATISES BY ETIENNE BINET , S.J. (1569-1639) -- 9 Pestilence, Apostasy, and Heresy in Seventeenth-Century Rome. DECIPHERING MICHAEL SWEERTS'S PLAGUE IN AN ANCIENT CITY -- Contributors -- Index

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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.

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In English.

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