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Author Bouley, Bradford.

Title Pious Postmortems : Anatomy, Sanctity, and the Catholic Church in Early Modern Europe
Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (223 pages)
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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Z
Summary 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 complex array of local and broader interests
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Catholic Church -- Europe -- History -- 16th century
Catholic Church -- Europe -- History -- 17th century
Catholic Church -- History -- 16th century.
Catholic Church -- History -- 17th century.
SUBJECT Catholic Church fast
Subject Canonization -- History -- 16th century
Canonization -- History -- 17th century
Autopsy -- Europe -- History -- 16th century
Autopsy -- Europe -- History -- 17th century
Human body -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church.
Religion and science -- Europe -- History -- 16th century
Religion and science -- Europe -- History -- 17th century
RELIGION -- Christian Theology -- Angelology & Demonology.
RELIGION -- Christianity -- Saints & Sainthood.
Autopsy
Canonization
Human body -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church
Religion and science
Europe
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780812294446
0812294440