:<i>The Incorruptible Flesh: Bodily Mutation and Mortification in Religion and Folklore</i>

Camporesi, Piero; Croft-Murray, Tania; Elsom, Helen

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Witchcraft and Inquisition in Early Modern Venice

Seitz

2011

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In early modern Europe, ideas about nature, God, demons and occult forces were inextricably connected and much ink and blood was spilled in arguments over the characteristics and boundaries of nature and the supernatural. Seitz uses records of Inquisition witchcraft trials in Venice to uncover how individuals across society, from servants to aristocrats, understood these two fundamental categories. Others have examined this issue from the points of view of religious history, the history of science and medicine, or the history of witchcraft alone, but this work brings these sub-fields together to illuminate comprehensively the complex forces shaping early modern beliefs.

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Witchcraft and Inquisition in Early Modern Venice

Seitz

2011

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Written in Flames: Self-Immolation in Sixth-Century Sichuan

Benn¹

2006

T oung Pao

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This article discusses the religious career and self-immolation (which involved public acts of burning the fingers and body) of the sixth-century monk, Sengyai. The author discusses the sources for a study of his life, and translates the extant biographical materials. He demonstrates that self-immolation was a practice open to multiple interpretations, and that Sengyai?s act was understood as one of cosmic significance in a religious milieu in which recent political events such as the fall of the Liang dynasty were interpreted as signs of the decline of the dharma. Cet article s'intéresse à la carrière religieuse d'un moine du vie siècle, Sengyai, et à ses actes publics d'auto-immolation, tels que la crémation, d'abord, de ses doigts, et ensuite de son corps tout entier. L'auteur examine les sources permettant d'étudier sa vie et propose une traduction des matériaux existants. Il montre que la pratique de l'auto-immolation s'offrait à de multiples interprétations, et que les actions de Sengyai étaient conçues comme revêtant une signification cosmique au sein d'un milieu où des événements politiques tels que la chute de la dynastie des Liang étaient vécus comme des signes du déclin du dharma.

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Negotiated Sanctity: Incorruption, Community, and Medical Expertise

Bouley¹

2016

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The incorruption of a saint’s body became a key miracle for Counter-Reformation saints, as it signaled their connection to God and therefore the correctness of the Catholic faith. Most canonized and many prospective saints in the seventeenth century were subjected to a posthumous medical examination. Competing local factors affected the process, including popular support for the prospective saint, the involvement of ecclesiastical and secular authorities, and the strength of the medical community. In the end, the attempt to make the miracle of incorruption a matter of medical opinion resulted in a negotiated truth about the state of the body.

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:The Incorruptible Flesh: Bodily Mutation and Mortification in Religion and Folklore

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Witchcraft and Inquisition in Early Modern Venice

Witchcraft and Inquisition in Early Modern Venice

Written in Flames: Self-Immolation in Sixth-Century Sichuan

Negotiated Sanctity: Incorruption, Community, and Medical Expertise

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