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Benedict XIV and the Enlightenment

Benedict XIV and the Enlightenment

Art, Science, and Spirituality

by Rebecca MessbargerChristopher Johns and Philip Gavitt
Hardback
Publication Date: 29/01/2016

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Pope Benedict XIV Lambertini (r. 1740-58) was one of the driving forces behind the Italian Enlightenment of the eighteenth century. His campaign to reconcile faith and empirical science, re-launch a dialogue between the Church and the European intellectual community, and expand papal patronage of the arts and sciences helped restore Italy's position as a center of intellectual and artistic innovation.

Benedict XIV and the Enlightenment offers a broad and nuanced assessment of Benedict's engagement with Enlightenment art, science, spirituality, and culture. The collection's essays, written by international experts in the field, cover topics ranging from Benedict's revisions to the Church's procedures for beatification and sanctification to his patronage of women scientists and mathematicians at the university in Bologna, his birthplace.

ISBN:
9781442637184
9781442637184
Category:
European history
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
29-01-2016
Language:
English
Publisher:
University of Toronto Press
Country of origin:
Canada
Dimensions (mm):
234.95x158.75x25.4mm
Weight:
0kg

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