Piety and plague
Subtitle: from Byzantium to the Baroque
By: edited by Franco Mormando and Thomas Worcester.
Contributors: Mormando, Franco.; Worcester, Thomas.
Series: Sixteenth century essays & studies series -- v. 78; Sixteenth century essays & studies -- v. 78.
Publisher: Truman State University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Kirksville, Mo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 329
ISBN-13: 9781931112734
Subjects: Plague -- Europe -- History -- 16th century.; Plague -- Religious aspects -- History.; Piety -- History.; Plague -- history -- Europe.; History, Medieval -- Europe.; Plague -- psychology -- Europe.; Religion and Medicine -- Europe.; Socioeconomic Factors -- Europe.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-312) and index.
Table of contents: value: The literature of plague and the anxieties of piety in sixth-century Byzantium / Anthony Kaldellis; value: Mice, arrows, and tumors : medieval plague iconography north of the Alps / Pamela Berger; value: Visualizing death : medieval plagues and the macabre / Elina Gertsman; value: The making of a plague saint : Saint Sebastian's imagery and cult before the Counter-Reformation / Sheila Barker; value: Protestants and plague : the case of the 1562-63 pest in Nuremberg / Ronald K. Rittgers; value: The Canker Friar : piety and intrigue in an era of new diseases / William Eamon; value: Poussin's Plague at Ashdod (Rome, 1630-31) : a work of art in multiple contexts / Elisabeth Hipp; value: Plague as spiritual medicine and medicine as spiritual metaphor : three treatises by Etienne Binet, S.J. (1569-1639) / Thomas Worcester; value: Pestilence, apostasy, and heresy in seventeenth-century Rome : deciphering Michael Sweerts' Plague in an ancient city / Franco Mormando.