{"product_id":"benedict-xiv-and-the-enlightenment-9781442637184","title":"Benedict XIV and the Enlightenment","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePope Benedict XIV Lambertini (r. 1740–58) was one of the driving forces behind the Italian Enlightenment of the eighteenth century. His campaign to reconcile faith and empirical science, re-launch a dialogue between the Church and the European intellectual community, and expand papal patronage of the arts and sciences helped restore Italy’s position as a center of intellectual and artistic innovation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBenedict XIV and the Enlightenment\u003c\/em\u003e offers a broad and nuanced assessment of Benedict’s engagement with Enlightenment art, science, spirituality, and culture. The collection’s essays, written by international experts in the field, cover topics ranging from Benedict’s revisions to the Church’s procedures for beatification and sanctification to his patronage of women scientists and mathematicians at the university in Bologna, his birthplace.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Accompanied by a wonderful set of colour plates, this book remarkably succeeds in its attempt to read the ambiguities and nuances of the \"Catholic Enlightenment\" through the figure of Benedict XIV. Historians of science will find an abundance of materials to work on the relationships between Catholicism and the science on a global scale in the early modern period.' -- Paolo Savoia Metascience 24 October 2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface by Rebecca Messbarger  Introduction by Christopher M. S. Johns  Part I: Benedict XIV, Women and Progressive Catholicism  1. Marta Cavazza: Benedict's Patronage of Learned Women  2. Paula Findlen: The Pope and the Englishwoman: Benedict XIV, Jane Squire, the Bologna Academy, and the Problem of Longitude  3. Stephanie Kirk: Benedict XIV and New World Convent Reform     Part II: Faith and Medicine in Catholic Enlightenment  4. Rebecca Messbarger: The Art and Science of Human Anatomy in Benedict's Vision of the Enlightenment Church  5. Gianna Pomata: The Devil's Advocate Among the Physicians: What Prospero Lambertini Learned from Medical Sources  6. Fernando Vidal: Modernizing the Miraculous Body in Prospero Lambertini's De Servorum Dei     Part III: Benedict's Response to Challenges to Church Authority  7. John L. Heilbron: Benedict XIV and the Natural Sciences  8. Maurice Finocchiaro: Benedict XIV and the Galileo Affair: Liberalization or Carelessness?  9. Maria Pia Donato: Reorder and Restore: Benedict XIV, the Index and the Holy Office     Part IV: Theology, Tradition and Institutions in the Era of Enlightened Catholicism  10. Maria Teresa Fattori: Lambertini's Treatises and the Cultural Project of Benedict XIV: Two Sides of the Same Policy  11. Roberto Rusconi: Benedict XIV and the Holiness of Popes in the First Half of the Eighteenth Century  12. Peter Bjorn Kerber: Vicar of Christ and Alter Christus: Benedict XIV's Della S. Messa     Part V: Benedict XIV's Transformation of the Public Sphere  13. Paola Giuli: Prospero Lambertini and the Accademia degli Arcadi (1694-1708)  14. Carole Paul: Benedict XIV's Enlightened Patronage of the Capitoline Museum  15. Christopher M. S. Johns: Papal Diplomacy and the Catholic Enlightenment: Benedict XIV's Caffeaus in the Quirinal Gardens     Part VI: Art and Architecture Across Italy and the World  16. Jeffrey Collins: Pedagogy in Plaster: Ercole Lelli and Benedict XIV's Gipsoteca at Bologna's Instituto delle Scienze e delle Arti  17. Kristina Kleutghen: The Art Ethnicity and Empire: Jesuit Art in China during the Papacy of Benedict XIV  18. Tommaso Manfredi: Academic Practice and Roman Architecture during the Reign of Benedict XIV","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408359858519,"sku":"9781442637184","price":57.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781442637184.jpg?v=1730502583","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/benedict-xiv-and-the-enlightenment-9781442637184","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}