Celebrating Teresa of Avila

The Discalced Carmelites in Italy and Their Mission to Persia and the East Indies

Pamela M. Jones (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

276 Seiten

2023
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-54890-9 (ISBN)

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Splendid, multimedia celebrations for Teresa of Avila's beatification (1614) and canonization (1622) disseminated her cult to far-flung cities. Previously unknown festivities in Genoa, Rome, and Naples as well as those in Portuguese controlled Hormuz and Goa are vividly reconstructed and interpreted.

Teresa of Ávila's cult was dramatically disseminated in previously unknown celebrations honoring her beatification (1614) and canonization (1622) in Italy and Portuguese Asia, the purview of her Discalced Carmelite Order's Italian Congregation. Reconstructions and analyses of the festivities in Genoa, Rome, Naples, Hormuz, and Goa center on the presentation of Teresa's gender, deeds, virtues, and miracles. The geopolitical roles played by religious, secular, and family networks in particularizing and propagating Teresa's universal cult are emphasized. The desired goal of converting Muslims and Hindus is addressed in light of attitudes toward ethnic and religious diversity shared by lay and ecclesiastical authorities.

Pamela M. Jones, Ph.D. (1985, Brown University) is Professor Emerita of Art History at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Her most recent books include Altarpieces and Their Viewers in the Churches of Rome from Caravaggio to Guido Reni (Ashgate, 2008) and the co-edited A Companion to Early Modern Rome, 1492–1692 (Brill, 2020).

Acknowledgments

List of Illustrations

Introduction

PART 1: Teresa’s Beatification Celebrations in Italy, 1614

1 A Triumphal Procession for Cloistered Nuns in Genoa

2 Matriarch of A Global Missionary Order in Papal Rome

3 ”Founder and Doctor and Virgin”: Spanish Holy Woman in Viceregal Naples

PART 2: Teresa’s Italian Canonization Celebrations, 1622

4 Canonizing Five New Saints in St. Peter’s Basilica

5 Honoring St. Teresa in S. Maria Della Scala, Rome

6 A Triumphal Procession for Philip Iv’s New Saint in Viceregal Naples

PART 3: The Mission to Persia and the East Indies: Conversionary Aspirations and Festivities

7 New Challenges: Confronting Ethnic and Religious Diversity

8 Celebrating Teresa’s Beatification in Hormuz in Portugal’s Estado Da Índia

9 Teresa’s Canonization Festivities in Goa, Rome of the East

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	12.12.2023
Reihe/Serie	Catholic Christendom, 1300-1700 ; 12
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	633 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	90-04-54890-4 / 9004548904
ISBN-13	978-90-04-54890-9 / 9789004548909
Zustand	Neuware