Saint and Nation : : Santiago, Teresa of Avila, and Plural Identities in Early Modern Spain / / Erin Kathleen Rowe.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
• VerfasserIn: Rowe, Erin Kathleen,
• Place / Publishing House: University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (280 p.) :; 4 maps

In early seventeenth-century Spain, the Castilian parliament voted to elevate the newly beatified Teresa of Avila to co-patron saint of Spain alongside the traditional patron, Santiago. Saint and Nation examines Spanish devotion to the cult of saints and the controversy over national patron sainthood to provide an original account of the diverse ways in which the early modern nation was expressed and experienced by monarch and town, center and periphery. By analyzing the dynamic interplay of local and extra-local, royal authority and nation, tradition and modernity, church and state, and masculine and feminine within the co-patronage debate, Erin Rowe reconstructs the sophisticated balance of plural identities that emerged in Castile during a central period of crisis and change in the Spanish world.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Maps -- Acknowledgments -- 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