Public Uses of Human Remains and Relics in History (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Cavicchioli, Silvia; Provero, Luigi

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Venerated and studied, or else repudiated and rediscovered, human remains ensure continuity with the past. This volume intends to reconstruct the complexity of the cult and symbols they have generated and the uses assigned to them in Italy in different historical periods.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. November 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000752120
• Artikelnr.: 58112658

Autorenporträt

Silvia Cavicchioli is Researcher of Contemporary History at the University of Turin. Luigi Provero is Full Professor of Medieval History at the University of Turin.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part I: Norm and Praxis in Late Antiquity 1. An Ignominious
Burial: The Treatment of the Body of Jesus of Nazareth 2. The Cult of
Relics in the Late Roman Empire: Legal Aspects Part II: Cults, Circulations
and Battles for Relics 3. A Liquid Miracle: The Origins of the Liquefaction
Ritual of the Blood of Saint Januarius 4. The Circulation of Roman Relics
in the Savoy States: Dynamics of Devotion and Political Uses in the Modern
and Contemporary Ages 5. Jewish Intellectuals and the "Martyrdom" of Simon
of Trent in Habsburg Restoration Italy: Anti-Semitism, Relics and
Historical Criticism 6. Some Observations on the Itinerary of Don Bosco's
Relics Part III: Collective Spaces of Death 7. Cemeteries and Villages in
the Thirteenth-Century Countryside 8. Within, Beneath and Outside the City:
The Space of the Dead in Early Modern Naples (Seventeenth to Nineteenth
Centuries) 9. Bodies "as Objects Preserved in Museums": The Capuchin
Catacombs in Palermo Part IV: Public Uses of Human Remains Between
Politics, Religion and Science 10. "Roasted and Eaten": The Neapolitan
Counter-Revolution of 1799 and the Use of Jacobin Remains 11. "You Can Tell
a Man from His Head": The Study and Preservation of the Skulls of
Celebrated Italians in the Nineteenth Century 12. The Remains of the
Vanquished: Bodies and Martyrs of the Roman Republic from the Risorgimento
to Fascism 13. The Medicalisation of the Corpse in Liberal Italy: National
Legislation and the Case of Turin 14. Simulacra of Eternal Life:
Ostensions, Exhibitions and the Concealment of Human Remains