TY - BOOK ID - 608587 TI - Law, medicine, and engineering in the cult of the saints in counter-Reformation Rome PY - 2014 VL - 178 SN - 15734188 SN - 9789004265134 9789004265141 9004265147 9004265139 PB - Boston DB - UniCat KW - Christian church history KW - Christian hagiography. KW - Martyrdom KW - Church history. KW - Hagiographie chrétienne KW - Martyre KW - Eglise KW - Christianity KW - History. KW - Christianisme KW - Histoire KW - Gallonio, Antonio, KW - Christian hagiography KW - Church history KW - History KW - Hagiographie chrétienne KW - Ecclesiastical history KW - History, Church KW - History, Ecclesiastical KW - Death KW - Suffering KW - Martyrs KW - Hagiography, Christian KW - Hagiography KW - Religious aspects KW - Galloni, Ant. KW - Galloni, Antonio, KW - Martyrdom - Christianity - History KW - Gallonio, Antonio KW - Gallonio, Antonio, - -1605 UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:608587 AB - The Oratorian priest Antonio Gallonio (1556-1605) devoted his life to writing about saints. The thread running through his hagiographical oeuvre was renunciation of this world: humility, subservience and endurance. Yet he engaged with the expertise of lay people, jurists, physicians and engineers, so as to appeal to their interests and convert them. In order to emphasize how saints endured torture, healed disease and exercised piety rather than ingenuity, Gallonio ventured into those secular disciplines, even if he did not endorse them. This book surveys Gallonio’s published and unpublished works and his position in Roman society, to expose the tensions between a theocratic clergy and the self-assertion of skilled and scholarly professionals in the Italian Counter-Reformation. ER -