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Wondrous in His Saints: Counter-Reformation Propaganda in Bavaria

Name: Wondrous in His Saints: Counter-Reformation Propaganda in Bavaria
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ISBN: 9780520080478

Philip M. Soergel

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At the close of the sixteenth century, despite Protestant attempts to discourage popular devotion to saints and shrines, the Roman Church in Bavaria initiated a propagandistic campaign through the publishing of pilgrimage books and pamphlets. Philip Soergel's cogent exploration of this little-known pilgrimage literature yields a vivid portrait of religion before, during, and after the Reformation and Counter-Reformation.These "advertisements," combining testimonies of miracles with fantastic legends about shrines, fueled the conflict between Catholics and Protestants and helped shape a distinctive Catholic historical consciousness. Soergel stresses the power of the printed word as a defense of traditional authority, testing other historians' assertions about the neglect of printing and literacy in the Counter-Reformation.

Request Code : ZLIBIO752050

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Year:

1993

Publisher:

University of California Press

Language:

English

ISBN 10:

0520080475

ISBN 13:

9780520080478