| Pietas Austriaca: Austrian Religious Practices in the Baroque Era Contributor(s): Coreth, Anna (Author), Bowman, William D. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1557531595 ISBN-13: 9781557531599 Publisher: Purdue University Press OUR PRICE: $19.75 Product Type: Paperback Published: February 2004 Annotation: Anna Coreth's work appeared originally in 1959. Her interpretation focuses on the relationship of Catholic religious practices and symbols to the House of Habsburg from the Counter or Catholic Reformation until the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Coreth demonstrates how elements of religiosity and spirituality, particularly those surrounding the Catholic Eucharistic and Marian celebrations, became part of the Habsburg ruling style. She discusses the imperial house's dedication to these rituals and what the religious practices came to mean to individual members of the Habsburg monarchy, such as Rudolf I, Ferdinand I, II, and III, Maria Theresa, and Joseph II. Coreth demonstrates the Habsburg monarchy's devotion to specific Catholic rituals and how these rituals in turn acquired political significance. Moreover, Coreth also examines the links between this Habsburg religious style, on the one hand, and the institutional Catholic Church, popular piety, religious orders, and mainstream political developments. The book is an extremely rich source for early modern and modern Austrian history. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Christianity - History - History | Western Europe - General - History | Europe - Austria & Hungary |
| Dewey: 282.436 |
| LCCN: 2003017436 |
| Series: Central European Studies |
| Physical Information: 0.47" H x 5.82" W x 9" (0.58 lbs) 117 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Medieval (500-1453) - Chronological Period - Modern - Cultural Region - Western Europe - Religious Orientation - Catholic - Religious Orientation - Christian |
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| Publisher Description: Pietas Austriaca is a path-breaking study of the relationship between religious beliefs and practices and the Habsburg political culture from the end of the medieval period to the early twentieth century. In this seminal work, originally published in 1959, Anna Coreth examines the ways that Catholic beliefs in the power of the Eucharist, the cross, the Virgin Mary, and saints were crucial for the Habsburg ruling dynasties in Austria and Spain. Coreth analyzes how leading Habsburg rulers in the early modern period, such as Rudolf I; Ferdinand I, II, and III; Maria Theresa; and Joseph II, used Catholic sacraments, rituals, and symbols to create a sense of identity and political purpose for their far-flung possessions in Europe. She further demonstrates how this Catholic culture drew on earlier models of pious Catholic rulers, especially the memory of Rudolph, and discusses the importance of this particular brand of Catholic piety in the confrontation with Protestantism in the Counter-Reformation period and in the encounter with the Muslim Turkish Empire. Coreth extends her study to discuss the myriad ways that this religious culture continued to influence Austrian society in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Pietas Austriaca is a tour de force that combines expert social, cultural, gender, and intellectual analysis of the political and religious landscape of one of Europe's most important empires and leading dynastic houses. |
Contributor Bio(s): Bowman, William D.: - William David Bowman teaches courses in modern European history and historical methods. His research interests include the social and cultural history of Germany and Austria, with an emphasis upon the history of religion and medicine.Coreth, Anna: - Anna Coreth studied history at the University of Vienna. She was an archivist and Austrian historian. |