Pious Postmortems: Anatomy, Sanctity, and the Catholic Church in Early Modern Europe
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017. Hardcover. 8vo., 224 pp. Appendices, Notes, Index. Considers the dozens of examinations performed on reputedly holy corpses in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries at the request of the Catholic Church. Contemporary theologians, physicians, and laymen believed that normal human bodies were anatomically different from those of both very holy and very sinful individuals. Fine in Fine dust jacket. Item #6072437
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