Messbarger / Johns / Gavitt Benedict XIV and the Enlightenment

Art, Science, and Spirituality
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-4426-2475-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Wasserzeichen (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 536 Seiten

Reihe: Toronto Italian Studies

Benedict XIV and the Enlightenment offers a comprehensive assessment of Benedict’s engagement with Enlightenment art, science, spirituality, and culture.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Messbarger, Rebecca

Johns, Christopher

Gavitt, Philip

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface by Rebecca MessbargerIntroduction by Christopher M. S. JohnsPart I: Benedict XIV, Women and Progressive Catholicism1. Marta Cavazza: Benedict’s Patronage of Learned Women2. Paula Findlen: The Pope and the Englishwoman: Benedict XIV, Jane Squire, the Bologna Academy, and the Problem of Longitude3. Stephanie Kirk: Benedict XIV and New World Convent ReformPart II: Faith and Medicine in Catholic Enlightenment4. Rebecca Messbarger: The Art and Science of Human Anatomy in Benedict’s Vision of the Enlightenment Church5. Gianna Pomata: The Devil’s Advocate Among the Physicians: What Prospero Lambertini Learned from Medical Sources6. Fernando Vidal: Modernizing the Miraculous Body in Prospero Lambertini’s De Servorum DeiPart III: Benedict’s Response to Challenges to Church Authority7. John L. Heilbron: Benedict XIV and the Natural Sciences8. Maurice Finocchiaro: Benedict XIV and the Galileo Affair: Liberalization or Carelessness?9. Maria Pia Donato: Reorder and Restore: Benedict XIV, the Index and the Holy OfficePart IV: Theology, Tradition and Institutions in the Era of Enlightened Catholicism10. Maria Teresa Fattori: Lambertini’s Treatises and the Cultural Project of Benedict XIV: Two Sides of the Same Policy11. Roberto Rusconi: Benedict XIV and the Holiness of Popes in the First Half of the Eighteenth Century12. Peter Björn Kerber: Vicar of Christ and Alter Christus: Benedict XIV’s Della S. MessaPart V: Benedict XIV’s Transformation of the Public Sphere13. Paola Giuli: Prospero Lambertini and the Accademia degli Arcadi (1694–1708)14. Carole Paul: Benedict XIV’s Enlightened Patronage of the Capitoline Museum15. Christopher M. S. Johns: Papal Diplomacy and the Catholic Enlightenment: Benedict XIV’s Caffeaus in the Quirinal GardensPart VI: Art and Architecture Across Italy and the World16. Jeffrey Collins: Pedagogy in Plaster: Ercole Lelli and Benedict XIV’s Gipsoteca at Bologna’s Instituto delle Scienze e delle Arti17. Kristina Kleutghen: The Art Ethnicity and Empire: Jesuit Art in China during the Papacy of Benedict XIV18. Tommaso Manfredi: Academic Practice and Roman Architecture during the Reign of Benedict XIV

Über Autor(innen)

MessbargerRebecca:
Rebecca Messbarger is a professor in the Department of Romance Languages at Washington University in St. Louis.
JohnsChristopher:
Christopher M.S. Johns is a professor in the Department of History of Art at Vanderbilt University.
GavittPhilip:
Philip Gavitt is a professor in the Department of History at Saint Louis University.