Article ID: CBB001211205

Stones of Passion: Stones in the Internal Organs as Liminal Phenomena between Medical and Religious Knowledge in Renaissance Italy (2013)

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The article considers how kidney stones, gallstones, and bladder stones, taken together to be known as internal stones by the author, became an intersection of both religion and early modern medicine in Renaissance Italy. It considers how internal stones reflected both natural and supernatural belief systems of science and religion. Notable cases considered include the relics of Chiara of Montefalco, an Augustine abbess which included three gallstones, the heart stones found in the body of Blessed Margherita da Città di Castello, and the Venerable friar Raniero of Borgo di San Sepolcro whose three gallstones contained religious images.

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Authors & Contributors
Jacquart, Danielle
Janot, Francis
Umansky, Ellen M.
Zuccolin, Gabriella
Kosso, Cynthia
Cohen-Hanegbi, Na'ama
Journals
Bruniana & Campanelliana: Ricerche Filosofiche e Materiali Storico-testuali
Vesalius
Medicina nei Secoli - Arte e Scienza
Micrologus: Nature, Sciences and Medieval Societies
Publishers
SISMEL edizioni del Galluzzo
Oxford University Press
Brill
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
New Digital Frontiers
Biblioteca dei Leoni
Concepts
Medicine and religion
Medicine
Surgery
Science and religion
Religious beliefs
Physicians; doctors
People
Borgognoni, Teodorico
Savonarola, Giovanni Michele
Pomponazzi, Pietro
Ficino, Marsilio
Avicenna
Time Periods
Renaissance
Medieval
16th century
17th century
13th century
Ancient
Places
Italy
Bologna (Italy)
Europe
France
Middle and Near East
Egypt
Institutions
Red Cross Societies
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