The Matter of Piety: Zoutleeuw's Church of Saint Leonard and Religious Material Culture in the Low Countries (c. 1450-1620)

Author:   Ruben Suykerbuyk
Publisher:   Brill
Volume:   16
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9789004426306


Pages:   428
Publication Date:   24 September 2020
Format:   Hardback
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The Matter of Piety: Zoutleeuw's Church of Saint Leonard and Religious Material Culture in the Low Countries (c. 1450-1620)


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The Matter of Piety provides the first in-depth study of Zoutleeuw’s exceptionally well-preserved pilgrimage church in a comparative perspective, and revaluates religious art and material culture in Netherlandish piety from the late Middle Ages through the crisis of iconoclasm and the Reformation to Catholic restoration. Analyzing the changing functions, outlooks, and meanings of devotional objects – monumental sacrament houses, cult statues and altarpieces, and small votive offerings or relics – Ruben Suykerbuyk revises dominant narratives about Catholic culture and patronage in the Low Countries. Rather than being a paralyzing force, the Reformation incited engaged counterinitiatives, and the vitality of late medieval devotion served as the fertile ground from which the Counter-Reformation organically grew under Protestant impulses.

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Author:   Ruben Suykerbuyk
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   16
Weight:   1.305kg
ISBN:  

9789004426306


ISBN 10:   9004426302
Pages:   428
Publication Date:   24 September 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Abbreviations Note on Currencies Introduction: The Matter of Piety in an Age of Religious Change  A Pulverized Image? Status quaestionis  Sources, Methodology and Set-up Part 1: Late Medieval Piety in Perspective 1 The Cult of Saint Leonard at Zoutleeuw  Saint Leonard’s Altarpiece  Protohistory of the Cult  The Fortunes of Devotion: Offerings  The Promotion of Devotion 2 The Image of Piety at the Dawn of Iconoclasm  Old Sources, New Views: Miracles and Indulgences  The Cult Circuit in the Low Countries  A Spirited Devotional Culture Materialized part 2: Catholic Piety in Iconoclastic Times 3 1520. The Waning of Medieval Piety?  Cornelis Floris’ Sacrament House  The Introduction of Protestant Thought  The 1520-Thesis  Continuities 4 Pilgrimage  The Public Debate on Images, Miracles and Pilgrims  The Cult of Saint Leonard at Zoutleeuw: Tradition and Innovation  Miracles and Cults, Old and New  Miracles as Anti-Protestant Statements 5 Parish Liturgy  The Eucharist  Musical Embellishment 6 Patronage  The Memorial Landscape in Zoutleeuw  Van Wilre’s Project  Countering the Reformation  Sacrament Houses as Objects of Defiance 7 1566: The Beeldenstorm and Its Aftermath  Destructions and Descriptions  The Wonderyear: Facts and Theories  Les villes bonnes  Zoutleeuw and the Hageland Region Part 3: The Miraculous Counter-Reformation 8 The Resumption of Miracles  Paulus Gautier’s Miracle Memorial Painting  A New Era?  The Rise of Votive Paintings  A Culture of the Miraculous  Zoutleeuw, 1612 9 Devotional Negotiation with the Archducal Government  The Object of Devotion: Image versus Relic  The Gift  The Translation Conclusion: The Thin Line Between Tradition and Transformation Appendix 1: The Churchwarden Accounts of Zoutleeuw’s Church of Saint Leonard Appendix 2: Graphs Notes Bibliography  Primary Sources  Published Sources  Literature  Online Databases Index

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"""It is not only the extended timespan and the bottom-up perspective that lends this beautifully published book an ambitious scope. Its multidisciplinary approach, bridging the gap between history and art history, and the use of different types of sources – written, visual, and material – further adds to the far-reaching aims of this work."" Carolina Lenarduzzi (Leiden University) in Early Modern Low Countries 7 (2023) ""... to show that Suykerbuyk's carefully crafted publication, which is rich in material and findings, makes for stimulating reading."" Esther Meiser, (TU Köln/TU Dortmund) in Renaissance Quarterly 1 (2023)"


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Ruben Suykerbuyk, Ph. D. (2018), Ghent University, is postdoctoral researcher at the same institution. He is the author of several works on fifteenth- to seventeenth-century religious art, material culture, and patronage in the Low Countries.

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