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

About the author

Jetze Touber, Ph.D. (2009) in History, Groningen University, is Postdoctoral Fellow at Utrecht University. He has published on hagiography, biblical scholarship, antiquarianism and natural history in the early modern period.

Product details

• Authors: Jetze Touber
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.01.2014
• EAN: 9789004265134
• ISBN: 978-90-04-26513-4
• No. of pages: 354
• Dimensions: 163 mm x 239 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 680 g
• Series: Studies in Medieval and Reform
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity