The Matter of Piety Zoutleeuw's Church of Saint Leonard and Religious Material Culture in the Low Countries (C. 1450-1620)

The Matter of Piety provides the first in-depth study of Zoutleeuw’s exceptionally well-preserved pilgrimage church in a comparative perspective, and revaluates religious art and material culture in Netherlandish piety from the late Middle Ages through the crisis of iconoclasm and the Reformation to...

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Otros Autores: Suykerbuyk, Ruben, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden, The Netherlands : Koninklijke Brill NV [2020]
Edición:First edition
Colección:Studies in Netherlandish art and cultural history.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of Illustrations
  • Abbreviations
  • Note on Currencies
  • Introduction: The Matter of Piety in an Age of Religious Change
  • A Pulverized Image? Status quaestionis
  • Sources, Methodology and Set-up
  • Part 1: Late Medieval Piety in Perspective
  • 1 The Cult of Saint Leonard at Zoutleeuw
  • Saint Leonard’s Altarpiece
  • Protohistory of the Cult
  • The Fortunes of Devotion: Offerings
  • The Promotion of Devotion
  • 2 The Image of Piety at the Dawn of Iconoclasm
  • Old Sources, New Views: Miracles and Indulgences
  • The Cult Circuit in the Low Countries
  • A Spirited Devotional Culture Materialized
  • part 2: Catholic Piety in Iconoclastic Times
  • 3 1520. The Waning of Medieval Piety?
  • Cornelis Floris’ Sacrament House
  • The Introduction of Protestant Thought
  • The 1520-Thesis
  • Continuities
  • 4 Pilgrimage
  • The Public Debate on Images, Miracles and Pilgrims
  • The Cult of Saint Leonard at Zoutleeuw: Tradition and Innovation
  • Miracles and Cults, Old and New
  • Miracles as Anti-Protestant Statements
  • 5 Parish Liturgy
  • The Eucharist
  • Musical Embellishment
  • 6 Patronage
  • The Memorial Landscape in Zoutleeuw
  • Van Wilre’s Project
  • Countering the Reformation
  • Sacrament Houses as Objects of Defiance
  • 7 1566: The Beeldenstorm and Its Aftermath
  • Destructions and Descriptions
  • The Wonderyear: Facts and Theories
  • Les villes bonnes
  • Zoutleeuw and the Hageland Region
  • Part 3: The Miraculous Counter-Reformation
  • 8 The Resumption of Miracles
  • Paulus Gautier’s Miracle Memorial Painting
  • A New Era?
  • The Rise of Votive Paintings
  • A Culture of the Miraculous
  • Zoutleeuw, 1612
  • 9 Devotional Negotiation with the Archducal Government
  • The Object of Devotion: Image versus Relic
  • The Gift
  • The Translation
  • Conclusion: The Thin Line Between Tradition and Transformation
  • Appendix 1: The Churchwarden Accounts of Zoutleeuw’s Church of Saint Leonard
  • Appendix 2: Graphs
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Primary Sources
  • Published Sources
  • Literature
  • Online Databases
  • Index.