Inventing the sacred : imposture, Inquisition, and the boundaries of the supernatural in Golden Age Spain
"Inventing the Sacred" analyzes the Spanish Inquisition's campaign to ferret out "false saints and scandalous impostors" whose claims of divinely inspired visions and revelations threatened the Catholic church’s efforts to monopolize access to the supernatural.
VIII, 229 p. ; 25 cm.
9789004145818, 9004145818, 9004145818
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Acknowledgements.. viiIntroduction. False Saints and Scandalous Impostors.. . . 1Chapter One. The Case of Mateo “the Holy Mat-Maker”.. . . 13Mateo in Madrid.. . . 14The Trial of Faith.. . 19A Captive’s Audience.. . 23Chapter Two. Royal Madrid: New Babylon or Catholic Court.. . 35Villa y Corte.. . 35Babylonian Madrid.. 38A Sacralized Cityscape.. . . 40An Inquisition for Madrid.. 45Chapter Three. Visions of Uncertainty.. . . 55Jean Gerson and the Discourse of Discernment.. . . 56Embodied Spirituality.. 65From Illuminism to Imposture.. 78Chapter Four. Interiority, Discipline, and “Unconfined Women” . . 87Interiority and Social Discipline.. . 88Beatas at the Catholic Court.. . . 91Spiritual Governance, Popular Piety, and Gender.. 99Publicizing Piety.. 107Chapter Five. Spiritual Plagiarism.. . 114Counter-Reformation Self-Fashioning?.. 116The Writings of María Bautista.. . . 118Impersonating Saint Teresa.. 129Chapter Six. The Miraculous Body of Evidence.. . 139Medical Discourse and Visionary Experience.. . . 144Naturalization and Its Discontents.. . . 151Deposing the Devil.. 172Chapter Seven. Medicinal Monarchy.. . 183Medical Politics.. . 183Philip IV and the Construction of Royal Thaumaturgy.. 193Conclusion.. 202Works Cited.. . 207Index.. 225
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Relaciones: Es número monográfico de la publicación: The medieval and early modern Iberian world, ISSN 1569-1934 ; n. 25