Inventing the sacred : imposture, inquisition, and the boundaries of the supernatural in Golden Age Spain
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Inventing the sacred : imposture, inquisition, and the boundaries of the supernatural in Golden Age Spain
（The medieval and early modern Iberian world, v. 25）
Brill, 2005
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-223) and index
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Description
This volume examines the Spanish Inquisition's response to a host of self-proclaimed holy persons and miracle-working visionaries whose spiritual exploits garnered popular acclaim in seventeenth-century Spain. In an effort to control this groundswell of religious enthusiasm, the Spanish Inquisition began prosecuting the crime of feigned sanctity, attempting to distinguish "false saints" from their officially approved counterparts. Drawing on Inquisition trial records, confessors' manuals, treatises on the discernment of spirits, and spiritual autobiographies, the book situates the problem of religious imposture in relation to the Catholic church's campaigns of social discipline and confessionalization in the post-Tridentine era and analyzes the ways in which conceptual controversies in early modern demonology, medicine, and natural philosophy complicated the church's disciplinary aims.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements.. vii
Introduction. False Saints and Scandalous Impostors.. . . 1
Chapter One. The Case of Mateo "the Holy Mat-Maker".. . . 13
Mateo in Madrid.. . . 14
The Trial of Faith.. . 19
A Captive's Audience.. . 23
Chapter Two. Royal Madrid: New Babylon or Catholic Court.. . 35
Villa y Corte.. . 35
Babylonian Madrid.. 38
A Sacralized Cityscape.. . . 40
An Inquisition for Madrid.. 45
Chapter Three. Visions of Uncertainty.. . . 55
Jean Gerson and the Discourse of Discernment.. . . 56
Embodied Spirituality.. 65
From Illuminism to Imposture.. 78
Chapter Four. Interiority, Discipline, and "Unconfined Women" . . 87
Interiority and Social Discipline.. . 88
Beatas at the Catholic Court.. . . 91
Spiritual Governance, Popular Piety, and Gender.. 99
Publicizing Piety.. 107
Chapter Five. Spiritual Plagiarism.. . 114
Counter-Reformation Self-Fashioning?.. 116
The Writings of Maria Bautista.. . . 118
Impersonating Saint Teresa.. 129
Chapter Six. The Miraculous Body of Evidence.. . 139
Medical Discourse and Visionary Experience.. . . 144
Naturalization and Its Discontents.. . . 151
Deposing the Devil.. 172
Chapter Seven. Medicinal Monarchy.. . 183
Medical Politics.. . 183
Philip IV and the Construction of Royal Thaumaturgy.. 193
Conclusion.. 202
Works Cited.. . 207
Index.. 225
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