The Anatomy of a Scientific Institution: The Paris Academy of Sciences, 1666-1803

by Roger Hahn

Overview

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1971.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780520336056
Publisher:	University of California Press
Publication date:	11/15/2023
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	454
File size:	8 MB

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Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction

1. The Historical Setting: The Production of Saints' Lives
2. Word and Image: Narrative Problems in Pictorial Hagiography
3. Martyrs' Passions: Bearing Witness
4. The Virgin as Corpus: Bodily Offering
5. The Lives of Confessors: Bishops
6. The Lives of Confessors: Monks and Abbots
7. Lay and Royal Saints: Kings and Nobles
8. The Lives of Confessors: Nuns and Queens
9. The End of the Monastic Tradition and a New Beginning: Matthew Paris

Epilogue: Narrative Innovation
Appendix: List of Manuscripts Cited
Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Index