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Bedazzled Saints

Catacomb Relics in Early Modern Bavaria

ISBN-13: 9780813949949
Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA PRESS
Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA PRESS
By Noria K. Litaker
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Local release date: 29/01/2024
Format: Hardback (229.00mm X 152.00mm) 300 pages Weight: 272g
Categories: European history [HBJD]

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Google Preview: The defense of the cult of saints and relics was an essential element of the Catholic Counter-Reformation in Europe. Facing attacks from Protestant denominations of all kinds, the Roman church redoubled its efforts to promote the veneration of its holy figures and to house their earthly remains in dramatic style. Bedazzled Saints chronicles the transfer, distribution, and display of nearly four hundred "holy bodies" of ancient Christian martyrs, some of the church's most prestigious relics, sent from the Roman catacombs to the Electorate of Bavaria between 1590 and 1803. Local communities, both religious and secular, broke with medieval tradition and spent immense amounts of time and money to fuse incomplete skeletons into lavishly decorated whole-body saints. By examining these ornamented skeletons--painstakingly enhanced with jewels and fine clothing and still on display atop church altars to this day--Noria Litaker elucidates the interplay between local religious practice and universal church doctrine, shedding new light on the negotiated nature of sanctity in early modern Catholicism. In so doing, she challenges the dominant narrative of the Bavarian Catholic Reformation as a top-down process and provides new insights into the role relics and their innovative presentation played in the development of Catholic identity in early modern German lands.; Noria K. Litaker is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.; Creating "Bavaria Sancta" from the Ground Up Some Assembly Required: Building Whole-Body Catacomb Saints Whole-Body Saints and Eucharistic Doctrine Semper eadem: Catacomb Saints and Sacred History Welcoming the Saints Home: Translation Processions and Festivities Roman Catacomb Saints as Local Residents and Patrons Epilogue: Catacomb Saints in the Modern Era; "Litaker's analysis is persuasive, clear, and interdisciplinary, using methodologies of literary criticism and art history in a sophisticated fashion. Her book will appeal to both specialists and to a wider audience interested in religion, Catholicism broadly, and early modern Germany." - Marc Forster, Connecticut College, author of Catholic Germany from the Reformation to the Enlightenment; Google Preview content

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