A New Aspiring Saint for an Ancient-New Order: Tomás Sánchez Dávila in the Construction of a Historia Sacra Carmelitarum Discalceatorum and a Baroque Saint at the Beginning of the Seventeenth Century
As the British historian Simon Ditchfield pointed out some years ago, in early modern Europe, people used the saints in various ways to fulfill a variety of cultural roles. Following this path, the present article proposes to observe one of the possible ways in which devotees used saints: the constr...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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The Catholic University of America Press
[2020]
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The catholic historical review
Year: 2020, Volume: 106, Issue: 4, Pages: 576-594 |
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Tomás, de Jesus 1564-1627
/ Unbeschuhte Karmeliten
/ Teresa, de Jesús 1515-1582
/ Hagiography
/ Historiography
/ Baroque
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| IxTheo Classification: | KAG Church history 1500-1648; Reformation; humanism; Renaissance KCA Monasticism; religious orders KCD Hagiography; saints KDB Roman Catholic Church |
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Teresa of Ávila
B historia sacra carmelitarum discalceatorum B Baroque sanctity B Tomás Sánchez Dávila |
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| Summary: | As the British historian Simon Ditchfield pointed out some years ago, in early modern Europe, people used the saints in various ways to fulfill a variety of cultural roles. Following this path, the present article proposes to observe one of the possible ways in which devotees used saints: the construction of a past for a new religious family, the Discalced Carmelites. Specifically, Tomás Sánchez Dávila (1564-1627) engaged in a Carmelite attempt to create a history both universal and specific by presenting Teresa of Ávila (1515-82) as a sign and proof of divine action and by connecting a past of biblical-millenary dimensions with more recent times, thus projecting the Order into a distant past. Thus, the historia sacra acquires a transforming genitive: the historia sacra carmelitarum discalceatorum. A new symbol emerges from this construction: The Baroque Counter-Reformation sanctity. |
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| ISSN: | 1534-0708 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The catholic historical review
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