Stones of Passion: Stones in the Internal Organs as Liminal Phenomena between Medical and Religious Knowledge in Renaissance Italy
In Renaissance Italy, stones growing inside the kidneys, bladders and gallbladders of people with a reputation of holiness could evoke veneration. Not only did these stones test the saints’ endurance, they were also natural phenomena approaching the miraculous. Yet they never figured as juridically...
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University of Pennsylvania Press
2013
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Journal of the history of ideas
Year: 2013, Volume: 74, Issue: 1, Pages: 23-44 |
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