Piety and plague
Subtitle: from Byzantium to the Baroque
By: edited by Franco Mormando, Thomas Worcester.
Contributors: Mormando, Franco.; Worcester, Thomas.
Series: Sixteenth century essays & studies series -- 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 and index.
Table of contents: title: The literature of plague and the anxieties of piety in sixth-century Byzantium / Anthony Kaldellis; title: Mice, arrows, and tumors : medieval plague iconography north of the Alps / Pamela Berger; title: Visualizing death : medieval plagues and the macabre / Elina Gertsman; title: The making of a plague saint : Saint Sebastian's imagery and cult before the Counter-Reformation / Sheila Barker; title: Protestants and plague : the case of the 1562/63 pest in Nuremberg / Ronald K. Rittgers; title: The Canker Friar : piety and intrigue in an era of new diseases / William Eamon; title: Poussin's the Plague at Ashdod : a work of art in multiple contexts / Elisabeth Hipp; title: Plague as spiritual medicine and medicine as spiritual metaphor : three treatises by Etienne Binet, S.J. (1569-1639) / Thomas Worcester; title: Pestilence, apostasy, and heresy in seventeenth-century Rome : deciphering Michael Sweerts' Plague in an ancient city / Franco Mormando.