Storied Places: Pilgrim Shrines, Nature, and History in Early Modern France

ISBN-13: 9781108716390 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 273 str.

Virginia Reinburg

Opis

Pilgrim shrines were places of healing, holiness, and truth in early modern France. By analyzing the creation of these shrines as natural, legendary, and historic places whose authority provided a new foundation for post-Reformation Catholic life, Virginia Reinburg examines the impact of the Reformation and religious wars on French society.

Recenzje

'… an illuminating exploration of how the appeal of significant shrines was constructed and maintained, with insights as well into what the experience of visiting these places as a pilgrim might have been like.' Philip Benedict, Journal of Modern History

Spis treści

Introduction; Part I. Legendary Locations: 1. An antique land: Sainte-Reine in Burgundy; 2. Pilgrims and nature in the Pyrenees; 3. Notre-Dame du Puy: image, pilgrimage, and the religious wars; Part II. Text, Territory, and Truth: 4. Histories and archives of faith; 5. In the beginning: origins, legends, and fables; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.