The Religious Experience of Ill Health in Late Sixteenth-Century Italy

Autor: Kuuliala, Jenni
Přispěvatelé: Katajala-Peltomaa, Sari, Toivo, Raisa Maria, Tampere University, History, Philosophy and Literary Studies
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Palgrave Studies in the History of Experience ISBN: 9783030921392
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-92140-8_4
Popis: This chapter discusses the role of lived religion in interpreting and forming the experience of illness, disability, and pain. The focus is on two cultural scripts that were inherent to early modern Italian culture: miracles and witchcraft. By using canonization process records and records of the Roman Inquisition as the source, the analysis focuses on the ways the veneration of saints and the belief in miraculous healing as well as the idea that witchcraft could make a person ill played into the lived religion of the period.
Databáze: OpenAIRE