The Miraculous Flying House of Loreto (eBook)

Spreading Catholicism in the Early Modern World

Karin Vélez (Autor)

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2018
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-18449-4 (ISBN)

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Karin Vélez is associate professor of history at Macalester College.

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In 1295, a house fell from the evening sky onto an Italian coastal road by the Adriatic Sea. Inside, awestruck locals encountered the Virgin Mary, who explained that this humble mud-brick structure was her original residence newly arrived from Nazareth. To keep it from the hands of Muslim invaders, angels had flown it to Loreto, stopping three times along the way. This story of the house of Loreto has been read as an allegory of how Catholicism spread peacefully around the world by dropping miraculously from the heavens.In this book, Karin Velez calls that interpretation into question by examining historical accounts of the movement of the Holy House across the Mediterranean in the thirteenth century and the Atlantic in the seventeenth century. These records indicate vast and voluntary involvement in the project of formulating a branch of Catholic devotion. Velez surveys the efforts of European Jesuits, Slavic migrants, and indigenous peoples in Baja California, Canada, and Peru. These individuals contributed to the expansion of Catholicism by acting as unofficial authors, inadvertent pilgrims, unlicensed architects, unacknowledged artists, and unsolicited cataloguers of Loreto. Their participation in portaging Mary's house challenges traditional views of Christianity as a prepackaged European export, and instead suggests that Christianity is the cumulative product of thousands of self-appointed editors. Velez also demonstrates how miracle narratives can be treated seriously as historical sources that preserve traces of real events.Drawing on rich archival materials, The Miraculous Flying House of Loreto illustrates how global Catholicism proliferated through independent initiatives of untrained laymen.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 11.12.2018
• Zusatzinfo: 7 b/w illus., 1 tables
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
• Schlagworte: Agostinho de Santa Maria • American Frontier • António Cordeiro • Apparitions (TV series) • Basilica • Bible • Bishop Casal • Black Madonna • Canonization • Caravaggio • Cardinal Antonio Maria Gallo • Cardinal Rutilio Benzoni • Carlo Crivelli • carmelites • Catholic Church • Catholic devotion • Catholicism • Catholic pilgrims • Christendom • Christian burial • Christianity • Church of the Holy Sepulchre • Claudio Acquaviva • Colegio de San Gregorio • Confraternity • Council of Trent • Counter-Reformation • Crusades • curator • Dalmatia • Devotion • early modern period • European Jesuits • flying house • Font Bureau • Franciscans • Francisco de Florencia • francis xavier • Girolamo • Girolamo Angelitta • Graduate school • H. C. Erik Midelfort • High Church • Historiography • Holy House • holy house builders • Holy House of Loreto • house of Loreto • Humanism • Iconography • Ignatius • Ignatius of Loyola • Indigenous peoples • indulgence • Italians • Italy • Jesuit missions • Jesuits • journey • Juan Maria Salvatierra • Laity • Laureta • LORETA • Loreto • Macalester College • Macerata • Madonna di Loreto (Caravaggio) • Madonna of Loreto • Madonna of Loreto (Raphael) • Manifesto • marche • Marian Apparition • Marian art • Marian sanctuaries • Mary • mary magdalene • mary's house • mental self-discipline • Middle Ages • Miracle • Mircea Eliade • Missionary • Modern Architecture • Moxos missions • mythohistory • narrative • new spain • Nicolà Albani • novitiate • Of Miracles • Origins • Origin Story • Our Lady of Guadalupe • Pairing • parable • Paranormal • patron saint • Philosopher • Pierre Chaumonot • Pietro di Giorgio Tolomei • Pilgrimage • P. J. Conkwright • Pope Julius II • Pope Paul III • Pope Sixtus V • Pope Urban VIII • procession • Protestantism • Queen of Heaven • reconstructive approach • Relic • Religion • Religious order • Religious Studies • reliquary • residence • Roman painting • Rosary • Sacred Mountains • Sainte-Marie among the Hurons • Scotch Roman • scrutiny • sculpture • Seat of Wisdom • seminary • Sermon • shrine • shrine history • shrine seal • Slavic migrants • Slavs • Society of Jesus • Spirituality • Statue • Superior General of the Society of Jesus • Tolomei • tomb • Trsat • University of California Press • V. • Virgin Mary • Virgin of Loreto • Walsingham • warfare • Wikipedia • Wilhelm Gumppenberg • Williams College • woodcut • World History • Writing
• ISBN-10: 0-691-18449-6 / 0691184496
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-18449-4 / 9780691184494