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- Title
Material Piety: Science and Religious Culture in Seventeenth-Century Portugal.
- Authors
Castel-Branco, Nuno
- Abstract
In seventeenth-century Lisbon, Jesuit mathematicians taught their students how to build blood-ejecting crucifixes and similar religious devices. Together with the activities of experts in the canonization of Isabel of Portugal and in other contexts, these situations represent rare instances in which religious devotion interacted directly with science. Informed by the histories of science, art, and religion, this essay argues that a piety centered on materiality fostered these scientific practices, which became religious ministries in themselves. This analysis brings new light to lasting debates on science and religion and to the purpose of practicing science in the early modern period.
- Subjects
PORTUGAL; RELIGION &; science; JESUITS; PIETY; DEVOTION; SEVENTEENTH century
- Publication
Renaissance Quarterly, 2021, Vol 74, Issue 4, p1162
- ISSN
0034-4338
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/rqx.2021.199