Wondrous in His Saints: Counter-Reformation Propaganda in Bavaria.

Renaissance Quarterly | December 22, 1997| | Copyright

This book examines a literary genre of the late sixteenth and seventeenth century: Bavarian pilgrimage books, which ranged from pamphlets to substantial works. They publicized saints' shrines, recounted miracles associated with them, and invited pilgrims to come. Predictably, pilgrimage books offer the historian precious evidence of people's beliefs, religious practices, and perceptions of the holy. According to the author, so far this literature has remained the preserve of German folklorists, receiving little scholarly attention in the English-speaking world despite its ...

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