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Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi : the making of a Counter-Reformation saint / Clare Copeland.
LIBRA BX4700.M37 C67 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Copeland, Clare, author.
- Series:
- Oxford theology and religion monographs
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- De' Pazzi, Maria Maddalena, Saint, 1566-1607.
- De' Pazzi, Maria Maddalena.
- Carmelite Nuns--Italy--Florence.
- Carmelite Nuns.
- Catholic Church--History.
- Catholic Church.
- History.
- Christian women saints.
- Beatification--History.
- Beatification.
- Canonization--History.
- Canonization.
- Italy--Florence.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 272 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2016.
- Summary:
- This work offers a detailed reconstruction of the campaigns for and trials resulting in the beatification (in 1626) and subsequent canonization in 1669 of the Florentine mystic nun, Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi (1566-1607). Clare Copeland places her findings in the wide context of the politics of saint-making at a time of particular significance for the history of Roman Catholic canonization. The Protestant Reformation had put the Roman Catholic Church on the defensive in this area of devotional practice and the period covered in this volume (ca. 1600-1669) saw far-reaching reforms in the ways in which sanctity was measured and adjudicated by Rome. Copeland shows how these developments need to be seen less in terms of a top-down attempt by the central organs of ecclesiastical control to impose a hegemony of holiness and more in terms of negotiation over the meanings of sanctity - and how it relates to canonization-between the various stakeholders.
- Contents:
- 1 The Call of the Convent 19
- 2 Suor Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi 42
- 3 Beata Moderna 66
- 4 The Life of a Saint 83
- 5 Witnesses to Holiness 103
- 6 Our Beata 119
- 7 S. Maria degli Angeli and the Barberini Family 142
- 8 Being Carmelite: Naples and the Carmelite Order 165
- 9 Canonization 188.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780198785385
- 0198785380
- OCLC:
- 959273302
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