Piety And Plague

Author : Franco Mormando,Thomas Worcester
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 533 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2007-09-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781612480084

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Piety and Plague by Franco Mormando,Thomas Worcester Pdf

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.

Author : Bianca M Lopez,W R Nicholson Endowed Assistant Professor of Medieval and Renaissance Studies Bianca M Lopez
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : History
ISBN : 150177591X

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Queen of Sorrows by Bianca M Lopez,W R Nicholson Endowed Assistant Professor of Medieval and Renaissance Studies Bianca M Lopez Pdf

"This book traces the late medieval rise of Santa Maria di Loreto, a wealthy and powerful Marian shrine in central Italy. Devotees venerated the shrine as an emotional response to multiple plagues, leading to the site's cooptation by the papacy in the fifteenth century"--

Author : Martin Luther
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 79 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023-02-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781506488394

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Fleeing Plague by Martin Luther Pdf

Bubonic Plague was an ongoing epidemic that sickened and killed many in Europe and beyond beginning in the mid-fourteenth century and continuing in the days of Martin Luther's sixteenth-century Germany. The pneumonic form of the disease was particularly dangerous because it entered the lungs and was spread by coughing. When this happened the fatality rate was nearly 100%. Martin Luther's treatise on whether one may flee when plague strikes was prompted by a request from the clergy of Breslau, who wondered whether a Christian could flee home and labors on account of the plague. Luther's pragmatic response focused on a Christian's responsibility to care for the sick and to use the means God gives to limit the plague's destruction. He lauded those who can face the plague without fear of death, but he emphasized that those with "weak faith" can flee in good conscience as long as they are not needed to care for someone or to maintain a public service. Luther used the occasion for the treatise to talk about the need for hospitals and public cemeteries outside the city center. Anna Marie Johnson introduces Luther's treatise and provides insightful annotations to help the reader understand Luther's text and his sixteenth century context. The parallels to the recent Covid pandemic and other epidemic diseases are striking. Though science and medicine have advanced greatly today, questions of ethical responsibilities are still with us, and Christians continue to wonder what faithful responses to pandemic should be.

Author : James Allan Evans
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2011-12-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781441140784

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The Power Game in Byzantium by James Allan Evans Pdf

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Author : Giulia Calvi
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0520057996

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Histories of a Plague Year by Giulia Calvi Pdf

"A dramatic and highly interesting story--one that brings to life the complexities of plague and of piety."--Natalie Zemon Davis, Princeton University

Author : Maria Pia Donato
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781317048527

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Sudden Death: Medicine and Religion in Eighteenth-Century Rome by Maria Pia Donato Pdf

In 1705-1706, during the War of the Spanish Succession and two years after a devastating earthquake, an ’epidemic’ of mysterious sudden deaths terrorized Rome. In early modern society, a sudden death was perceived as a mala mors because it threatened the victim’s salvation by hindering repentance and last confession. Special masses were celebrated to implore God’s clemency and Pope Clement XI ordered his personal physician, Giovanni Maria Lancisi, to perform a series of dissections in the university anatomical theatre in order to discover the 'true causes' of the deadly events. It was the first investigation of this kind ever to take place for a condition which was not contagious. The book that Lancisi published on this topic, De subitaneis mortibus (’On Sudden Deaths’, 1707), is one of the earliest modern scientific investigations of death; it was not only an accomplished example of mechanical philosophy as applied to the life sciences in eighteenth-century Europe, but also heralded a new pathological anatomy (traditionally associated with Giambattista Morgagni). Moreover, Lancisi’s tract and the whole affair of the sudden deaths in Rome marked a significant break in the traditional attitude towards dying, introducing a more active approach that would later develop into the practice of resuscitation medicine. Sudden Death explores how a new scientific interpretation of death and a new attitude towards dying first came into being, breaking free from the Hippocratic tradition, which regarded death as the obvious limit of physician’s capacity, and leading the way to a belief in the 'conquest of death' by medicine which remains in force to this day.

Author : Simon Davies,Puck Fletcher
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004276864

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News in Early Modern Europe by Simon Davies,Puck Fletcher Pdf

News in Early Modern Europe presents new research on the nature, production, and dissemination of a variety of forms of news writing from across Europe during the early modern period.

Author : Christine M. Boeckl
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2000-11-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781935503453

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Images of Plague and Pestilence by Christine M. Boeckl Pdf

Since the late fourteenth century, European artists created an extensive body of images, in paintings, prints, drawings, sculptures, and other media, about the horrors of disease and death, as well as hope and salvation. This interdisciplinary study on disease in metaphysical context is the first general overview of plague art written from an art-historical standpoint. The book selects masterpieces created by Raphael, Titian, Tintoretto, Rubens, Van Dyck, and Poussin, and includes minor works dating from the fourteenth to twentieth centuries. It highlights the most important innovative artistic works that originated during the Renaissance and the Catholic Reformation. This study of the changing iconographic patterns and their iconological interpretations opens a window to the past.

Author : Ms Brenda Llewellyn Ihssen
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781472402950

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John Moschos' Spiritual Meadow by Ms Brenda Llewellyn Ihssen Pdf

John Moschos' Spiritual Meadow is one of the most important sources for late sixth-early seventh century Palestinian, Syrian and Egyptian monasticism. This undisputedly invaluable collection of beneficial tales provides contemporary society with a fuller picture of an imperfect social history of this period: it is a rich source for understanding not only the piety of the monk but also the poor farmer. Brenda Llewellyn Ihssen fills a lacuna in classical monastic secondary literature by highlighting Moschos' unique contribution to the way in which a fertile Christian theology informed the ethics of not only those serving at the altar but also those being served. Introducing appropriate historical and theological background to the tales, Llewellyn Ihssen demonstrates how Moschos' tales addresses issues of the autonomy of individual ascetics and lay persons in relationship with authority figures. Economic practices, health care, death and burials of lay persons and ascetics are examined for the theology and history that they obscure and reveal. Whilst teaching us about the complicated relationships between personal agency and divine intercession, Moschos’ tales can also be seen to reveal liminal boundaries we know existed between the secular and the religious.

Author : Ben Dodds
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030890582

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Myths and Memories of the Black Death by Ben Dodds Pdf

This book explores modern representations of the Black Death, a medieval pandemic. The concept of cultural memory is used to examine the ways in which journalists, writers of fiction, scholars and others referred to, described and explained the Black Death from around 1800 onwards. The distant medieval past was often used to make sense of aspects of the present, from the cholera pandemics of the nineteenth-century to the climate crisis of the early twenty-first century. A series of overlapping myths related to the Black Death emerged based only in part on historical evidence. Cultural memory circulates in a variety of media from the scholarly article to the video game and online video clip, and the connections and differences between mediated representations of the Black Death are considered. The Black Death is one of the most well-known aspects of the medieval world, and this study of its associated memories and myths reveals the depth and complexity of interactions between the distant and recent past.

Author : Norman F. Cantor
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476797748

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In the Wake of the Plague by Norman F. Cantor Pdf

The Black Death was the fourteenth century's equivalent of a nuclear war. It wiped out one-third of Europe's population, taking millions of lives. The author draws together the most recent scientific discoveries and historical research to pierce the mist and tell the story of the Black Death as a gripping, intimate narrative.

Author : Andrew J. Turner,K. O. Chong-Gossard,Frederik Juliaan Vervaet
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004187757

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Private and Public Lies by Andrew J. Turner,K. O. Chong-Gossard,Frederik Juliaan Vervaet Pdf

Graeco-Roman literary works, historiography, and even the reporting of rumours were couched as if they came in response to an insatiable desire by ordinary citizens to know everything about the lives of their leaders, and to hold them to account, at some level, for their abuse of constitutional powers for personal ends. Ancient writers were equally fascinated with how these same individuals used deceit as a powerful tool to disguise private and public reality. The chapters in this collection examine the themes of despotism and deceit from both historical and literary perspectives, over a range of historical periods including classical Athens, the Hellenistic kingdoms, late republican and early imperial Rome, late antiquity, and Byzantium.

Author : Polly Low
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2023-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009313551

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The Cambridge Companion to Thucydides by Polly Low Pdf

Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War is one of the earliest and most influential works in the western historiographical tradition. It provides an unfinished account of the war between Athens and her allies and Sparta and her allies which lasted from 431 to 404 BC, and is a masterpiece of narrative art and of political analysis. The twenty chapters in this Companion offer a wide range of perspectives on different aspects of the text, its interpretation and its significance. The nature of the text is explored in detail, and problems of Thucydides' historical and literary methodology are examined. Other chapters analyse the ways in which Thucydides' work illuminates, or complicates, our understanding of key historical questions for this period, above all those relating to the nature and conduct of war, politics, and empire. Finally, the book also explores the continuing legacy of Thucydides, from antiquity to the present day.

Author : Christian Attard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 991823055X

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The Art of Dying Well by Christian Attard Pdf

Author : Jutta Gisela Sperling
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317098102

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Medieval and Renaissance Lactations by Jutta Gisela Sperling Pdf

The premise of this volume is that the ubiquity of lactation imagery in early modern visual culture and the discourse on breastfeeding in humanist, religious, medical, and literary writings is a distinct cultural phenomenon that deserves systematic study. Chapters by art historians, social and legal historians, historians of science, and literary scholars explore some of the ambiguities and contradictions surrounding the issue, and point to the need for further study, in particular in the realm of lactation imagery in the visual arts. This volume builds on existing scholarship on representations of the breast, the iconography of the Madonna Lactans, allegories of abundance, nature, and charity, women mystics' food-centered practices of devotion, the ubiquitous practice of wet-nursing, and medical theories of conception. It is informed by studies on queer kinship in early modern Europe, notions of sacred eroticism in pre-tridentine Catholicism, feminist investigations of breastfeeding as a sexual practice, and by anthropological and historical scholarship on milk exchange and ritual kinship in ancient Mediterranean and medieval Islamic societies. Proposing a variety of different methods and analytical frameworks within which to consider instances of lactation imagery, breastfeeding practices, and their textual references, this volume also offers tools to support further research on the topic.