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The Natural History of a Neapolitan Miracle

Author : Francesco de Ceglia
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040172350
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book The Natural History of a Neapolitan Miracle written by Francesco de Ceglia and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-11-01 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines Naples’s patron saint, Gennaro, the history of his blood relic, and the mystery of its periodical liquefaction. Three times a year, Neapolitans gather to witness the recurring phenomenon of the liquefaction of San Gennaro’s blood. From the seventeenth century to the present, crowds have prayed to the city’s patron for protection from fires, earthquakes, plagues, droughts, and the fury of Mt. Vesuvius. In the “miraculous” moment of transposition from solid to liquid, the faithful seek respite from the ills of the world in the saintly blood, a visual reminder of the blood of Christ spilled for their salvation. In Naples, the periodical liquefaction of San Gennaro’s blood is not officially recognized as miraculous by the Catholic Church, which now more cautiously refers to it as a prodigy. Nevertheless, for centuries, this phenomenon has been called “a miracle” in liturgical texts approved by the ecclesiastical authority and in the words of bishops, cardinals, popes, and saints. However, not everyone agreed. This volume follows the efforts of theologians, alchemists, charlatans, and scientists who, through the centuries, have tried to answer questions such as: Is the liquefaction of San Gennaro’s blood really a miracle? If not, how is it possible to explain a phenomenon that occurs only on dates liturgically relevant to the saint? The Natural History of a Neapolitan Miracle will be of great value to those interested in Religious Studies, Italian Studies, Medieval and Early Modern Studies, as well as the History of Science, Anthropology, and Ethnography.

The Natural History of a Neapolitan Miracle

Author : Francesco de Ceglia
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781032442600
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book The Natural History of a Neapolitan Miracle written by Francesco de Ceglia and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2024-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can the melting of a blood thickened by centuries be a miracle for some and not for others? This This book examines the efforts through the centuries of theologians, alchemists, charlatans and scientists to answer the question: Is it really a miracle? This book sheds light on the relationships between the natural and the supernatural, but also between life and death in different European cultures, as well as analysing the question of how can a natural history be made of what, for its own definition, oversteps the order of creation? Focusing on Naples, the author studies the liquefaction of the blood of Saint Gennaro and how in the Middle Ages, the blood of this Saint was intended to be as a simply unstable substance. The author reconstructs the events that have given to its special rhythm of liquefaction which makes them so. This book also seeks to anthropologically retrace the efforts of men and women of the past to conceptualize a protean phenomenon. The miracle of Saint Gennaro is utilised as a window through which to observe not only the history of Naples, but also and above all the evolution of mentalities of those who, even in lands very far from there, have over time questioned that periodical meeting. The book provides an outline for the history of the marvel and its epistemic function. This book will be of great value to those interested in Religious and Science Studies, Medieval and Early Modern Studies, the History of Science, Anthropology and Ethnography.

The Natural History of a Neapolitan Miracle

Author : Francesco Paolo de Ceglia
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781003371274
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (712 download)

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Download or read book The Natural History of a Neapolitan Miracle written by Francesco Paolo de Ceglia and published by . This book was released on 2024-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book examines the Naples' patron saint, Gennaro, the history of his blood relic and the mystery of its periodical liquefaction. Three times a year Neapolitans gather to witness the recurring phenomenon of the liquefaction of Saint Gennaro's blood. From the seventeenth century to the present, crowds have prayed to the city's patron for protection from fires, earthquakes, plagues, droughts, and the fury of Mt. Vesuvius. In the "miraculous" moment of transposition from solid to liquid, the faithful seek respite from the ills of the world in the saintly blood, a visual reminder of the blood of Christ spilled for their salvation. In Naples, the periodical liquefaction of Saint Gennaro's blood is not officially recognized as miraculous by the Catholic Church, which now more cautiously refers to it as a prodigy. Nevertheless, for centuries, this phenomenon has been called "a miracle" in liturgical texts approved by the ecclesiastical authority and in the words of bishops, cardinals, popes and saints. However not everyone agreed. This volume follows the efforts of theologians, alchemists, charlatans and scientists who through the centuries have tried to answer questions such as: Is the liquefaction of Saint Gennaro's blood really a miracle? If not, how is it possible to explain a phenomenon that only occurs on dates liturgically relevant to the saint? The Natural History of a Neapolitan Miracle will be of great value to those interested in Religious Studies, Italian Studies, Medieval and Early Modern Studies, as well as the History of Science, Anthropology and Ethnography"--

Virgil's Golden Egg and Other Neapolitan Miracles

Author : Michael A. Ledeen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351297260
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)

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Download or read book Virgil's Golden Egg and Other Neapolitan Miracles written by Michael A. Ledeen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Savvy Italians will tell you that Neapolitans are considered the cleverest, most imaginative, most romantic, and the most entertaining people in the country. The world's finest men's fashions are Neapolitan, Italy's most celebrated popular songs and a high proportion of popular and operatic singers are Neapolitan—starting with Enrico Caruso. Sophia Loren and Toto are famously Neapolitan. Divorce Italian Style and Marriage Italian Style were based on plays written by the great Neapolitan Eduardo de Filippo. If you check the Italian literary awards year after year, you will find an amazingly high proportion of Neapolitans walking off with the highest honors. Naples has been a great creative center for hundreds of years. Neapolitan creativity has survived centuries of foreign occupation, widespread misery, the end of its role as a great capital city, repeated natural catastrophes, and terrible epidemics. What accounts for the creativity of Naples? The sorcerer Virgil is said to have created a Golden Egg, inside a crystal sphere, to save Naples from natural catastrophe. The egg, locked in an iron cage, was buried beneath a castle—still known as the "Egg Castle"—to give it stability and to give eternal life to Naples. Michael Ledeen suggests some surprising answers in a highly original exploration of Neapolitan life and death that ranges from religion to organized crime, war and violence. His deep affection for this remarkable city and its people is evident on every page.

The Fall of Babylon Foreshadowed in Her Teaching, in History, and in Prophecy

Author : John Cumming
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.V/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fall of Babylon Foreshadowed in Her Teaching, in History, and in Prophecy written by John Cumming and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The matter of miracles

Author : Helen Hills
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526100398
Total Pages : 726 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book The matter of miracles written by Helen Hills and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates baroque architecture through the lens of San Gennaro’s miraculously liquefying blood in Naples. This vantage point allows a bracing and thoroughly original rethink of the power of baroque relics and reliquaries. It shows how a focus on miracles produces original interpretations of architecture, sanctity and place which will engage architectural historians everywhere. The matter of the baroque miracle extends into a rigorous engagement with natural history, telluric philosophy, new materialism, theory and philosophy. The study will transform our understanding of baroque art and architecture, sanctity and Naples. Bristling with new archival materials and historical insights, this study lifts the baroque from its previous marginalisation to engage fiercely with materiality and potentiality and thus unleash baroque art and architecture as productive and transformational.

Catholic Cults and Devotions

Author : Michael P. Carroll
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773561951
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Catholic Cults and Devotions written by Michael P. Carroll and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1989-04-01 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Carroll is the first to bring psychoanalytic theory to bear on a range of Catholic cults and devotions, including the Rosary, the Angelus, the Stations of the Cross, the Blood Miracles of Naples, the Stigmata, the Forty Hours, the Brown Scapular, and the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Carroll assembles a great deal of historical information that until now has been widely scattered in obscure publications. He suggests why such devotions are absent from the Protestant tradition and argues for a new and more subtle appreciation of the role that Italian Catholicism played in shaping Catholicism generally.

Souls of Naples

Author : Autori Vari
Publisher : Viella Libreria Editrice
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (546 download)

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Download or read book Souls of Naples written by Autori Vari and published by Viella Libreria Editrice. This book was released on 2024-03-21T14:32:00+01:00 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume you will find stories about hyperactive relics, ghosts in spiritual or bodily form, as well as accounts of the dead being conjured, resurrected, and brought back to life from decomposing matter. This is not so much for the purpose of assembling a kind of Neapolitan Wunderkammer, but rather to allow these bodies – in physical or spiritual form, or sometimes both at the same time – to speak as protagonists, and to offer their own contribution to the historical anthropology of the Kingdom of Naples. This volume explores the boundaries between body and spirit, life and death, as well as the natural, preternatural, and supernatural in the long early modern era in southern Italy.

Modern history

Author : Israel Smith Clare
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Modern history written by Israel Smith Clare and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Standard History of the World

Author : John Herbert Clifford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 776 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book The Standard History of the World written by John Herbert Clifford and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Library of Universal History and Popular Science ...

Author : Israel Smith Clare
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Library of Universal History and Popular Science ... written by Israel Smith Clare and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Library of World History

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Library of World History written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Standard History of the World, by Great Historians

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 752 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The Standard History of the World, by Great Historians written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Illustrated History of All Nations

Author : Israel Smith Clare
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Illustrated History of All Nations written by Israel Smith Clare and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints

Author : Alban Butler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 926 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints written by Alban Butler and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 926 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Standard History of the World

Author : Israel Smith Clare
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 562 pages
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Download or read book The Standard History of the World written by Israel Smith Clare and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

In the Land of Marvels

Author : Paola Bertucci
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421447118
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book In the Land of Marvels written by Paola Bertucci and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2023-10-17 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How a journey through Italy casts light on secrets, stereotypes, and the manipulation of information in eighteenth-century science. In 1749, the celebrated French physicist Jean-Antoine Nollet set out on a journey through Italy to solve an international controversy over the medical uses of electricity. At the end of his nine-month tour, he published a highly influential account of his philosophical battle with his Italian counterparts, discrediting them as misguided devotees of the marvelous. Paola Bertucci's In the Land of Marvels brilliantly reveals the mysteries of Nollet's journey, uncovering a subterranean world of secretive and ambitious intelligence gathering masked as scientific inquiry. The advent of electricity was a pivotal phenomenon not only in the history of physical experimentation, but also in the cultivation of popular scientific interest. Nollet's journey was supposedly inspired by the need to investigate, and subsequently report on, claims of the use of electrified "medicated tubes" by their Italian inventor Gianfrancesco Pivati. Motivated by economic interests in the silk industry, Nollet's journey was in fact an undercover mission commissioned by the French state to discover the secrets of Italian silk manufacture and possibly supplant its international success. The event that sparked the medical controversy—the unusual cure of a bishop—was a complete fabrication. Bertucci insightfully contrasts published accounts of the event with private documents and discusses how eighteenth-century scientists published fictional events and results to bolster their careers, ultimately leading to long-lasting misrepresentations of scientific practice and enduring stereotypes. In the Land of Marvels reveals the constellation of historical actors, from reputed physicists to travel writers and electrical amateurs, who manipulated information to gain authority and prestige.