Local Religion in Sixteenth-century Spain"Spanish Catholicism in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries has attracted considerable scholarly attention over the years. The work of theologians, humanists, mystics, and saints has been one focus of that attention. Another has been the investigation and suppression of heterodoxy by the Spanish Inquisition and the crown. William Christian is after a more elusive subject--the religious beliefs and practices of ordinary Spanish Christians.--Publisher. |
Contents
Introduction | 11 |
Vows | 19 |
THE VOW | 27 |
HOW SAINTS WERE CHOSEN FOR VOWS | 29 |
MUTUAL OBLIGATIONS OF SAINTS AND COMMUNITIES | 51 |
EFFECTIVENESS OF VOWS | 55 |
GRADUATED RESPONSES TO CRISES | 59 |
ACTIVITY OF SAINTS | 62 |
INDULGENCES | 137 |
Local Religion Variations Alternatives and Reform | 143 |
LOCAL RELIGION OF CITIES | 144 |
KINGSHIP AND LOCAL RELIGION | 149 |
ERASMIANISM AND REFORM | 154 |
THE SURVIVAL OF LOCAL RELIGION | 171 |
Christ Enshrined 15801780 | 177 |
Text of Madrid Vow to Saint Anne and Saint Roch 1597 | 205 |
Chapels and Shrines | 66 |
CHAPEL DEDICATIONS | 67 |
ORIGIN LEGENDS | 71 |
THE USE OF SHRINES IN CRISES | 88 |
IMAGES USED FOR CURING | 89 |
SHRINES SHRINE KEEPERS AND FIESTAS | 101 |
Relics and Indulgences | 122 |
District and Regional Shrines 15751580 New Castile | 207 |
Locations and Sources of Relics 15751580 | 213 |
Sources and Abbreviations | 219 |
Notes | 227 |
Index | 261 |
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