Megan C. Armstrong (Ontario McMaster University)

The Holy Land and the Early Modern Reinvention of Catholicism

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Produktbeschreibung

Examines Catholic engagement in the Holy Land, a place of immense spiritual significance for Christians, Muslims and Jews. It explores its spiritual meaning, early modern pilgrimage, and the Holy Land's emergence as a site of imperial as well as inter-faith contestation in a period of profound religious and political change.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 414
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 762g
• ISBN-13: 9781108832472
• ISBN-10: 1108832474
• Artikelnr.: 60580255

Autorenporträt

Megan Armstrong is Associate Professor of History at McMaster University. A scholar of Early Modern history in a global context, she is the author of The Politics of Piety:  Franciscan Preachers During the Wars of Religion, 1560-1600 (2004).

Inhaltsangabe

1. A Catholic gateway to the Holy Land: the Custodia Terrae Sanctae
2. Altars in the holy places and the pursuit of Christian precedence
3. The order of the holy sepulcher
4. Franc, the protector of the holy places
5. The congregation of the propaganda fide and the custody
6. A Franciscan Holy Land.