Preface by Rebecca Messbarger
Introduction by Christopher M. S. Johns
Part I: Benedict XIV, Women and Progressive Catholicism
1. Marta Cavazza: Benedict’s Patronage of Learned Women
2. Paula Findlen: The Pope and the Englishwoman: Benedict XIV, Jane Squire, the Bologna Academy, and the Problem of Longitude
3. Stephanie Kirk: Benedict XIV and New World Convent Reform
Part II: Faith and Medicine in Catholic Enlightenment
4. Rebecca Messbarger: The Art and Science of Human Anatomy in Benedict’s Vision of the Enlightenment Church
5. Gianna Pomata: The Devil’s Advocate Among the Physicians: What Prospero Lambertini Learned from Medical Sources
6. Fernando Vidal: Modernizing the Miraculous Body in Prospero Lambertini’s De Servorum Dei
Part III: Benedict’s Response to Challenges to Church Authority
7. John L. Heilbron: Benedict XIV and the Natural Sciences
8. Maurice Finocchiaro: Benedict XIV and the Galileo Affair: Liberalization or Carelessness?
9. Maria Pia Donato: Reorder and Restore: Benedict XIV, the Index and the Holy Office
Part IV: Theology, Tradition and Institutions in the Era of Enlightened Catholicism
10. Maria Teresa Fattori: Lambertini’s Treatises and the Cultural Project of Benedict XIV: Two Sides of the Same Policy
11. Roberto Rusconi: Benedict XIV and the Holiness of Popes in the First Half of the Eighteenth Century
12. Peter Björn Kerber: Vicar of Christ and Alter Christus: Benedict XIV’s Della S. Messa
Part V: Benedict XIV’s Transformation of the Public Sphere
13. Paola Giuli: Prospero Lambertini and the Accademia degli Arcadi (1694–1708)
14. Carole Paul: Benedict XIV’s Enlightened Patronage of the Capitoline Museum
15. Christopher M. S. Johns: Papal Diplomacy and the Catholic Enlightenment: Benedict XIV’s Caffeaus in the Quirinal Gardens
Part VI: Art and Architecture Across Italy and the World
16. Jeffrey Collins: Pedagogy in Plaster: Ercole Lelli and Benedict XIV’s Gipsoteca at Bologna’s Instituto delle Scienze e delle Arti
17. Kristina Kleutghen: The Art Ethnicity and Empire: Jesuit Art in China during the Papacy of Benedict XIV
18. Tommaso Manfredi: Academic Practice and Roman Architecture during the Reign of Benedict XIV