The Matter of Piety : : Zoutleeuw's Church of Saint Leonard and Religious Material Culture in the Low Countries (C. 1450-1620) / / Ruben Suykerbuyk.

• Superior document: Studies in Netherlandish Art and Cultural History Series ; Volume 16
• VerfasserIn: Suykerbuyk, Ruben,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands : : Koninklijke Brill NV,, [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Netherlandish art and cultural history.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (453 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s).

The Matter of Piety provides the first in-depth study of Zoutleeuw’s exceptionally well-preserved pilgrimage church in a comparative perspective, and revaluates religious art and material culture in Netherlandish piety from the late Middle Ages through the crisis of iconoclasm and the Reformation to...

Table of Contents

• Acknowledgements
• List of Illustrations
• Abbreviations
• Note on Currencies
• Introduction: The Matter of Piety in an Age of Religious Change
• A Pulverized Image? Status quaestionis
• Sources, Methodology and Set-up
• Part 1: Late Medieval Piety in Perspective
• 1 The Cult of Saint Leonard at Zoutleeuw
• Saint Leonard’s Altarpiece
• Protohistory of the Cult
• The Fortunes of Devotion: Offerings
• The Promotion of Devotion
• 2 The Image of Piety at the Dawn of Iconoclasm
• Old Sources, New Views: Miracles and Indulgences
• The Cult Circuit in the Low Countries
• A Spirited Devotional Culture Materialized
• part 2: Catholic Piety in Iconoclastic Times
• 3 1520. The Waning of Medieval Piety?
• Cornelis Floris’ Sacrament House
• The Introduction of Protestant Thought
• The 1520-Thesis
• Continuities
• 4 Pilgrimage
• The Public Debate on Images, Miracles and Pilgrims
• The Cult of Saint Leonard at Zoutleeuw: Tradition and Innovation
• Miracles and Cults, Old and New
• Miracles as Anti-Protestant Statements
• 5 Parish Liturgy
• The Eucharist
• Musical Embellishment
• 6 Patronage
• The Memorial Landscape in Zoutleeuw
• Van Wilre’s Project
• Countering the Reformation
• Sacrament Houses as Objects of Defiance
• 7 1566: The Beeldenstorm and Its Aftermath
• Destructions and Descriptions
• The Wonderyear: Facts and Theories
• Les villes bonnes
• Zoutleeuw and the Hageland Region
• Part 3: The Miraculous Counter-Reformation
• 8 The Resumption of Miracles
• Paulus Gautier’s Miracle Memorial Painting
• A New Era?
• The Rise of Votive Paintings
• A Culture of the Miraculous
• Zoutleeuw, 1612
• 9 Devotional Negotiation with the Archducal Government
• The Object of Devotion: Image versus Relic
• The Gift
• The Translation
• Conclusion: The Thin Line Between Tradition and Transformation
• Appendix 1: The Churchwarden Accounts of Zoutleeuw’s Church of Saint Leonard
• Appendix 2: Graphs
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Primary Sources
• Published Sources
• Literature
• Online Databases
• Index.