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03464aam a2200493 i 4500 001 909A9780F11E11E79D0FC10F97128E48 003 SILO 005 20180104010254 008 170317s2017 pau b 001 0 eng c 010 $a 2017012494 020 $a 0812249577 020 $a 9780812249576 035 $a (OCoLC)980435414 040 $a PU/DLC $b eng $e rda $c PAU $d DLC $d YDX $d BTCTA $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d BDX $d ERASA $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e------ 050 00 $a BX2330 $b .B68 2017 082 00 $a 235/.24094 $2 23 100 1 $a Bouley, Bradford, $e author. 245 10 $a Pious postmortems : $b anatomy, sanctity, and the Catholic Church in early modern Europe / $c Bradford A. Bouley. 264 1 $a Philadelphia : $b University of Pennsylvania Press, $c [2017] 300 $a 214 pages ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 8 $a As part of the process of consideration for sainthood, the body of Filippo Neri, "the apostle of Rome," was dissected shortly after he died in 1595. The finest doctors of the papal court were brought in to ensure that the procedure was completed with the utmost care. These physicians found that Neri exhibited a most unusual anatomy. His fourth and fifth ribs had somehow been broken to make room for his strangely enormous and extraordinarily muscular heart. The physicians used this evidence to conclude that Neri had been touched by God, his enlarged heart a mark of his sanctity. Bradford A. Bouley 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. Attempting to demonstrate the reality of miracles in the bodies of its saints, the Church introduced expert testimony from medical practitioners and increased the role granted to university-trained physicians in the search for signs of sanctity such as incorruption. The practitioners and physicians engaged in these postmortem examinations to further their study of human anatomy and irregularity in nature, even if their judgments regarding the viability of the miraculous may have been compromised by political expediency. 610 20 $a Catholic Church $z Europe $x History $y 16th century. 610 20 $a Catholic Church $z Europe $x History $y 17th century. 610 27 $a Catholic Church. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00531720 650 0 $a Canonization $x History $y 16th century. 650 0 $a Canonization $x History $y 17th century. 650 0 $a Autopsy $z Europe $x History $y 16th century. 650 0 $a Autopsy $z Europe $x History $y 17th century. 650 0 $a Human body $x Catholic Church. $x Catholic Church. 650 0 $a Religion and science $z Europe $x History $y 16th century. 650 0 $a Religion and science $z Europe $x History $y 17th century. 650 7 $a Autopsy. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00824193 650 7 $a Canonization. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00845944 650 7 $a Human body $x Catholic Church. $x Catholic Church. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01730092 650 7 $a Religion and science. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01093848 651 7 $a Europe. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01245064 648 7 $a 1500-1699 $2 fast 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191211025324.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=909A9780F11E11E79D0FC10F97128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search