Piety and plague : from Byzantium to the Baroque
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Piety and plague : from Byzantium to the Baroque
(Sixteenth century essays & studies, v. 78)
Truman State University Press, c2007
- : hardback
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents of Works
- 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