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Saint and Nation:

Santiago, Teresa of Avila, and Plural Identities in Early Modern Spain
  • ISBN-13: 9780271037745
  • Publisher: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Erin Kathleen Rowe
  • Price: AUD $75.99
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  • Local release date: 03/02/2011
  • Format: Paperback 280 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Military history [HBW]
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Examines the controversy in early seventeenth-century Spain over the elevation of Saint Teresa of Avila to co-patron saint alongside the traditional patron, Santiago. Assesses the crucial role of sanctity in the symbolic representation of the nation in early modern Europe.


Contents

List of Maps

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

1. Santiago and the Shadow of Decline

2. Saint Teresa and the Lived Experience of the Holy

3. The Politics of Patron Sainthood

4. The Gender of Foreign Policy

5. Mapping Sacred Geography

6. King, Nation, and Church in the Habsburg Monarchy

7. Endgame in Rome

Epilogue

Bibliography

Index


“Rowe successfully illustrates how the co-patronage debate reflected the diversity of cultural, religious, and political identities in early modern Spain. . . . This is a work of sound scholarship and far-reaching insights that deserves wide dissemination among students of religion and politics.”

—Helen Rawlings, American Historical Review

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