Research Catalog

Title

Immaculate conceptions : the power of the religious imagination in early modern Spain / Rosilie Hernández.

Author

Hernández, Rosilie

Publication

• Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2019]
• ©2019

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Details

Description

xii, 263 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

"Immaculate Conceptions examines devotional writings, religious and literary texts, and visual art that feature the mystery of the immaculacy of the Virgin Mary in the culture of early modern Spain. The author's analysis is motivated by the complexity and multivalent capacity of the doctrine and its icon at a time when the debates around Mary's conception imbued all levels of religious and social life. She considers the many interests--political, doctrinal, artistic, and gender-driven--that intersect and compete in the exegesis and textual and visual representations of the Immaculate Conception. She argues that the Immaculate Conception of Mary proved to be a fertile conceptual and ideological field wherein the identities of the Spanish state, local communities, and individuals were negotiated, variously defined, and contested. The study's broader aim is to delineate a speculative category, the religious imagination, defined as a spiritual, intellectual, or artistic pursuit in which the individual is committed to sacred truth yet articulates this truth through contingent, partial, and contextually determined theological propositions. The representational status of the image and its relationship to theories of physical sight and spiritual vision are central to the author's formulation of this category."--

Series Statement

Toronto Iberic ; 42

Uniform Title

Toronto Iberic ; 42.

Subject

• Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint > In literature
• Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint > Art
• Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint > Devotion to > Spain
• Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint
• 1500-1700
• Devotional literature, Spanish > History and criticism
• Spanish literature > Classical period, 1500-1700 > History and criticism
• Immaculate Conception > In literature
• Immaculate Conception in art
• Painting, Spanish > 17th century
• Devotion
• Devotional literature, Spanish
• Literature
• Painting, Spanish
• Spanish literature > Classical period
• Spain

Genre/Form

• Art.
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages [239]-251) and index.

Call Number

JFE 19-12075

ISBN

• 9781487504779
• 1487504772

OCLC

1065954580

Author

Hernández, Rosilie, author.

Title

Immaculate conceptions : the power of the religious imagination in early modern Spain / Rosilie Hernández.

Publisher

Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2019]

Copyright Date

©2019

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Toronto Iberic ; 42

Toronto Iberic ; 42.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages [239]-251) and index.

Chronological Term

1500-1700

Research Call Number

JFE 19-12075