Piety and plague : from Byzantium to the Baroque / edited by Franco Mormando, Thomas Worcester.

Other author Mormando, Franco.
Other author Worcester, Thomas.
Format Book
Publication InfoKirksville, Mo. : Truman State University Press, ©2007.
Descriptionxii, 329 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.
Subjects
Plague--Europe. --History. --16th century.
Plague--Religious aspects. --History.
Piety--History.

SeriesSixteenth century essays & studies series ; 78
Sixteenth century essays & studies ; v. 78. ^A163793
Contents The literature of plague and the anxieties of piety in sixth-century Byzantium / Anthony Kaldellis -- Mice, arrows, and tumors : medieval plague iconography north of the Alps / Pamela Berger -- Visualizing death : medieval plagues and the macabre / Elina Gertsman -- The making of a plague saint : Saint Sebastian's imagery and cult before the Counter-Reformation / Sheila Barker -- Protestants and plague : the case of the 1562/63 pest in Nuremberg / Ronald K. Rittgers -- The Canker Friar : piety and intrigue in an era of new diseases / William Eamon -- Poussin's the Plague at Ashdod : a work of art in multiple contexts / Elisabeth Hipp -- Plague as spiritual medicine and medicine as spiritual metaphor : three treatises by Etienne Binet, S.J. (1569-1639) / Thomas Worcester -- Pestilence, apostasy, and heresy in seventeenth-century Rome : deciphering Michael Sweerts' Plague in an ancient city / Franco Mormando.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2007029073
ISBN9781931112734 (hardback : alk. paper)
ISBN1931112738 (hardback : alk. paper)