Benedict XIV and the Enlightenment

Art, Science, and Spirituality
Herausgeber: Messbarger, Rebecca; Gavitt, Philip; Johns, Christopher

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Produktbeschreibung

Pope Benedict XIV Lambertini (r. 1740–58) was one of the driving forces behind the Italian Enlightenment of the eighteenth century. His campaign to reconcile faith and empirical science, re-launch a dialogue between the Church and the European intellectual community, and expand papal patronage of the arts and sciences helped restore Italy’s position as a center of intellectual and artistic innovation. Benedict XIV and the Enlightenment offers a broad and nuanced assessment of Benedict’s engagement with Enlightenment art, science, spirituality, and culture. The collection’s essays, written by international experts in the field, cover topics ranging from Benedict’s revisions to the Church’s procedures for beatification and sanctification to his patronage of women scientists and mathematicians at the university in Bologna, his birthplace.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 536
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 159mm x 40mm
• Gewicht: 901g
• ISBN-13: 9781442637184
• ISBN-10: 1442637188
• Artikelnr.: 44161018

Autorenporträt

Edited by Rebecca Messbarger, Christopher M.S. Johns, and Philip Gavitt

Inhaltsangabe

Preface by Rebecca Messbarger
Introduction by Christopher M. S. Johns
Part I: Benedict XIV, Women and Progressive Catholicism
1. Marta Cavazza: Benedict’s Patronage of Learned Women
2. Paula Findlen: The Pope and the Englishwoman: Benedict XIV, Jane Squire,
the Bologna Academy, and the Problem of Longitude
3. Stephanie Kirk: Benedict XIV and New World Convent Reform
 
Part II: Faith and Medicine in Catholic Enlightenment
4. Rebecca Messbarger: The Art and Science of Human Anatomy in Benedict’s
Vision of the Enlightenment Church
5. Gianna Pomata: The Devil’s Advocate Among the Physicians: What Prospero
Lambertini Learned from Medical Sources
6. Fernando Vidal: Modernizing the Miraculous Body in Prospero Lambertini’s
De Servorum Dei
 
Part III: Benedict’s Response to Challenges to Church Authority
7. John L. Heilbron: Benedict XIV and the Natural Sciences
8. 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 Office
 
Part IV: Theology, Tradition and Institutions in the Era of Enlightened
Catholicism
10. Maria Teresa Fattori: Lambertini’s Treatises and the Cultural Project
of Benedict XIV: Two Sides of the Same Policy
11. Roberto Rusconi: Benedict XIV and the Holiness of Popes in the First
Half of the Eighteenth Century
12. Peter Björn Kerber: Vicar of Christ and Alter Christus: Benedict XIV’s
Della S. Messa
 
Part V: Benedict XIV’s Transformation of the Public Sphere
13. Paola Giuli: Prospero Lambertini and the Accademia degli Arcadi
(1694–1708)
14. Carole Paul: Benedict XIV’s Enlightened Patronage of the Capitoline
Museum
15. Christopher M. S. Johns: Papal Diplomacy and the Catholic
Enlightenment: Benedict XIV’s Caffeaus in the Quirinal Gardens
 
Part VI: Art and Architecture Across Italy and the World
16. Jeffrey Collins: Pedagogy in Plaster: Ercole Lelli and Benedict XIV’s
Gipsoteca at Bologna’s Instituto delle Scienze e delle Arti
17. Kristina Kleutghen: The Art Ethnicity and Empire: Jesuit Art in China
during the Papacy of Benedict XIV
18. Tommaso Manfredi: Academic Practice and Roman Architecture during the
Reign of Benedict XIV