Pious Postmortems
Author | : Bradford Bouley |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2017-10-05 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780812249576 |
ISBN-13 | : 0812249577 |
Rating | : 4/5 (577 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Pious Postmortems by : Bradford Bouley
Download or read book Pious Postmortems written by Bradford Bouley and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2017-10-05 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Pious Postmortems, Bradford A. Bouley considers the examinations performed on reputedly holy corpses in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries at the request of the Catholic Church. Bouley concludes that neither religious nor scientific truths were self-evident but rather negotiated through a complex array of local and broader interests.