Piety and plague : from Byzantium to the Baroque

Piety and plague : from Byzantium to the Baroque / edited by Franco Mormando and Thomas Worcester.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Mormando, Franco, Worcester, Thomas
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Kirksville, Mo. : Truman State University Press,, c2007.
Series:Sixteenth century essays & studies ; v. 78.
Subjects:
Plague > Europe > History > 16th century.
Plague > Religious aspects > Europe > History.
Piety > History.
Table of Contents:
  • The literature of plague and the anxieties of piety in sixth-century Byzantium / Anthony Kaldellis
  • Mice, arrows, and tumors : medieval plague iconography north of the Alps / Pamela Berger
  • Visualizing death : medieval plagues and the macabre / Elina Gertsman
  • The making of a plague saint : Saint Sebastian's imagery and cult before the Counter-Reformation / Sheila Barker
  • Protestants and plague : the case of the 1562-63 pest in Nuremberg / Ronald K. Rittgers
  • The Canker Friar : piety and intrigue in an era of new diseases / William Eamon
  • Poussin's Plague at Ashdod (Rome, 1630-31) : a work of art in multiple contexts / Elisabeth Hipp
  • Plague as spiritual medicine and medicine as spiritual metaphor : three treatises by Etienne Binet, S.J. (1569-1639) / Thomas Worcester
  • Pestilence, apostasy, and heresy in seventeenth-century Rome : deciphering Michael Sweerts' Plague in an ancient city / Franco Mormando.

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