03260nam 2200649 450 991046502050332120200903223051.090-04-26514-710.1163/9789004265141(CKB)3710000000088998(EBL)1633843(SSID)ssj0001108418(PQKBManifestationID)11717333(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001108418(PQKBWorkID)11087100(PQKB)11484141(MiAaPQ)EBC1633843(nllekb)BRILL9789004265141(PPN)178907650(Au-PeEL)EBL1633843(CaPaEBR)ebr10837916(CaONFJC)MIL576010(OCoLC)870950652(EXLCZ)99371000000008899820131230d2014 uy| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrLaw, medicine, and engineering in the cult of the saints in counter-Reformation Rome the hagiographical works of Antonio Gallonio, 1556-1605 /by Jetze Touber ; translated from Dutch by Peter LongbottomBoston :Brill,2014.1 online resource (353 p.)Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions,1573-4188 ;volume 178Description based upon print version of record.90-04-26513-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.Preliminary Material -- 1. I ntroduction -- 2. Hagiography and Historiography -- 3. Judicial Proceedings and Malicious Torture -- 4. Health and Holiness -- 5. Martyrological Technology -- 6. Collecting Material about Saints -- 7. Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index of Names -- Index of Places -- Index of Subjects.The Oratorian priest Antonio Gallonio (1556-1605) devoted his life to writing about saints. The thread running through his hagiographical oeuvre was renunciation of this world: humility, subservience and endurance. Yet he engaged with the expertise of lay people, jurists, physicians and engineers, so as to appeal to their interests and convert them. In order to emphasize how saints endured torture, healed disease and exercised piety rather than ingenuity, Gallonio ventured into those secular disciplines, even if he did not endorse them. This book surveys Gallonio’s published and unpublished works and his position in Roman society, to expose the tensions between a theocratic clergy and the self-assertion of skilled and scholarly professionals in the Italian Counter-Reformation.Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions ;v. 178.Christian hagiographyMartyrdomChristianityHistoryChurch historyElectronic books.Christian hagiography.MartyrdomChristianityHistory.Church history.282.092Touber Jetze994426Longbottom Peter994427MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910465020503321Law, medicine, and engineering in the cult of the saints in counter-Reformation Rome2277335UNINA