Local religion in sixteenth-century Spain

Princeton University Press

1981

viii, 283 p.

9780691053066

Vows --A Response to Disaster --The Vow --How Saints Were Chosen for Vows --Mutual Obligations of Saints and Communities --Effectiveness of Vows --Graduated Responses to Crises --"Activity" of Saints --Chapels and Shrines --Chapel Dedications --Origin Legends --The Use of Shrines in Crises --Images Used for Curing --Shrines, Shrine Keepers, and Fiestas --Relics and Indulgences --Relics --Indulgences --Local Religion: Variations, Alternatives, and Reform --Local Religion of Cities --Kingship and Local Religion --Erasmianism and Reform --The Survival of Local Religion --Christ Enshrined, 1580-1780 --Text of Madrid Vow to Saint Anne and Saint Roch, 1597 --District and Regional Shrines, 1575-1580, New Castile --Locations and Sources of Relics, 1575-1580.

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