Theater of a Thousand Wonders: A History of Miraculous Images and Shrines in New Spain: 103 (Cambridge Latin American Studies, Series Number 103)
Cambridge University Press
Edition: Illustrated, 10/3/2016
EAN 9781107102675, ISBN10: 1107102677
Hardcover, 738 pages, 23.4 x 16.2 x 5 cm
Language: English
The great many shrines of New Spain have become long-lived sites of shared devotion and contestation across social groups. They have provided a lasting sense of enchantment, of divine immanence in the present, and a hunger for epiphanies in daily life. This is a story of consolidation and growth during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, rather than one of rise and decline in the face of early stages of modernization. Based on research in a wide array of manuscript and printed primary sources, and informed by recent scholarship in art history, religious studies, anthropology, and history, this is the first comprehensive study of shrines and miraculous images in any part of early modern Latin America.
Part I. Bearings
Historical Patterns and Places of Image Shrines
1. Formative developments, 1520s–1720s
2. Growth, other changes, and continuities in the late colonial period
3. Miraculous images of Christ and the Virgin Mary
4. Advocations of the Virgin Mary in the colonial period
Part II. Soundings
Divine Presence, Place, and the Power of Things
5. Making miracles
6. Relics, images, and other numinous things
7. Religious prints and their uses
8. Placing the cross in colonial Mexico
9. Pilgrims, processions, and RomerÃÂas
Conclusion
Appendix 1. A checklist of colonial image shrines
Appendix 2. When shrines began
Appendix 3. Other saints, a brief appraisal
Index.