Immaculate Conceptions: The Power of the Religious Imagination in Early Modern Spain

Rosilie Hernández

Published by University of Toronto Press 2019

Immaculate Conceptions

The Power of the Religious Imagination in Early Modern Spain

Rosilie Hernández

In the series Toronto Iberic

https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487530860

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About this book

Immaculate Conceptions investigates the religious imagination – sacred truth communicated through contingent and contextually determined theological propositions – as deployed in early modern Spanish textual and visual representations of the Virgin of the Immaculate Conception.

Author / Editor information

Hernández Rosilie :

Rosilie Hernández is Professor in the Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies and Associate Dean for Student Academic Affairs at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Reviews

Matt Schramm, Emory University:

"Without questioning the sincerity of her subjects’ religious convictions, Hernández convincingly locates their religious imaginings within a larger political world and identifies their socio-political implications. In this way, she offers an account of the religious imagination which is not only productive for scholars of religious studies, but also for theologians and artists interested in self-reflexively examining the implications of their own work."

Dale Shuger, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Tulane University:

"Hernández’s multidisciplinary approach is innovative, coherent, and given the treatment of the immaculacy question in the period, such a study has been sorely lacking."

Darcy Donahue, Emeritus, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Miami University:

"Rosilie Hernández’s knowledge of scholarship and primary sources is impressive, and she communicates it with intellectual rigor and stylistic grace. I know of no other study which brings together art, literature, politics, religion, and cultural theory around the issue of immaculacy and religious imagination."

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
List of Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
1. The Anatomy of the Religious Imagination: Immaculacy and the Spanish Counter-Reformation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. An Army of Peers: The Virgin of the Immaculate Conception for the Popular Imagination Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
3. Pintor Divino: The Painter as Divinely Inspired Liberal Artist and the Conditions of Representation for a Sacred Mystery Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	76
4. Visiones Imaginarias: Pacheco, Velázquez, Zurbarán, and Murillo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
5. Concepción Maravillosa: Theological Discourse and Religious Women Writers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	152
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
Works Cited Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	239
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	253

Language: English
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Audience: College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 280
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 25
- Other: 25 b&w illustrations
Keywords: religious; imagination; Virgin; Immaculate Conception; early modern; Spain; Counter-Reformation; seventeenth-century; Spanish; painting; women writers; theatre; sermons; treatises; theory of vision and sight; mystical; visionary; experiences

eBook

Published: August 22, 2019
ISBN: 9781487530860