Law, medicine, and engineering in the cult of the saints in counter-Reformation Rome : the hagiographical works of Antonio Gallonio, 1556-1605 /
This book shows how the sixteenth-century priest Antonio Gallonio engaged with law, medicine and engineering, to draw attention to saintly virtues. It exposes the tensions between a theocratic clergy and the self-assertion of secular professionals in the Italian Counter-Reformation.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English Dutch |
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Boston :
Brill,
2014.
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| Series: | Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions ;
volume 178. |
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