TY  - BOOK
AU  - Touber,Jetze
TI  - Law, medicine, and engineering in the cult of the saints in counter-Reformation Rome: the hagiographical works of Antonio Gallonio, 1556-1605 
T2  - Studies in medieval and reformation traditions,
SN  - 9789004265141
AV  - BX4662 .T68 2014
U1  - 282.092 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Gallonio, Antonio,
KW  - Christian hagiography
KW  - Martyrdom
KW  - Christianity
KW  - History
KW  - Church history
N1  - 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
N2  - 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 This book surveys Gallonio’s published and unpublished works and his position in Roman society, to expose the tensions between a theocratic clergy and the self-assertion of skilled and scholarly professionals in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
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004265141
ER  -