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1 online resource (272 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Oxford theology and religion monographs |
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Oxford theology and religion monographs.
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| Contents |
Cover; Maria Maddalena de ́Pazzi: The Making of a Counter-Reformation Saint; Copyright; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; Maria Maddalena De ́Pazzi; A COUNTER-REFORMATION SAINT; CANONIZATION; WOMEN AND THE PURSUIT OF HOLINESS; BECOMING SAINTLY; 1: The Call of the Convent; Privileged Living and Precocious Holiness; A Jesuit Formation; Religious Vocation; The monastery of S. Maria degli angeli; 2: Suor Maria Maddalena de ́Pazzi; A Visionary in the Convent; Discerning the True, Writing the Word; Maria Maddalenaś Religious Vocation |
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Beyond the Cloister3: Beata Moderna; Concerns about Unauthorized Devotions; Nurturing Devotion; Sanctity Shared; 4: The Life of a Saint; Collaborative Hagiography; A Life Rewritten; Biography Used; Fame Abroad; 5: Witnesses to Holiness; Starting the Process; In Testimony to a Holy Life; Miracle Worker; 6: Our Beata; The Work of the Congregation of Rites; The Maturing of a Cult; The Apostolic Process: Virtues and Miracles; The Challenge of a Change in Rules; Beatification; 7: S. Maria degli Angeli and the Barberini Family; Miraculous Oil; Pope Urban VIII and Canonization; Florentine Saints |
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Le Barberine8: Being Carmelite: Naples and the Carmelite Order; Carmelite Reform in Naples; A Merchant Patron; Maria Maddalena the Carmelite; 9: Canonization; Enthusiasm for the Miraculous; Assessing Miracles; The Carmelites, The Medici, The Barberini, and The Pope; The Cost of Canonization; Celebrating Sanctity; Afterword; Bibliography; Manuscript sources; Florence; Naples; Rome and Vatican City; Printed primary sources; Early printed sources; Biographies; Other works; Secondary literature; Index |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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De' Pazzi, Maria Maddalena, Saint, 1566-1607.
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| SUBJECT |
De' Pazzi, Maria Maddalena, Saint, 1566-1607 fast |
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Carmelite Nuns -- Italy -- Florence
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Catholic Church -- History.
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Carmelite Nuns fast |
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Catholic Church fast |
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Christian women saints.
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Beatification -- History
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Canonization -- History
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RELIGION -- Christianity -- Catholic.
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RELIGION -- Christianity -- Saints & Sainthood.
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Beatification
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Canonization
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Christian women saints
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Italy -- Florence
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191827310 |
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0191827312 |
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0191088137 |
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9780191088131 |
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