Cambridge Companion to Counter-Reformation Sanctity

List of contents

Introduction Jan Machielsen, Emily Michelson and Katrina B. Olds; Part I. Models of Sanctity: 1. Bishops Madeline McMahon; 2. Martyrs Alejandro Cañeque; 3. Female Saints Rebeca Sanmartín Bastida; 4. The Virgin Mary Christina H. Lee; 5. Black Saints Erin Kathleen Rowe; 6. Catacomb Saints Noria K. Litaker; Part II. Creating and Contesting Sanctity: 7. Canonization Jan Machielsen; 8. Regulating Relics A. Katie Harris; 9. Mysticism and the Discernment of Spirits Eleonora Cappuccilli; 10. Miracles and Holy Bodies Bradford Bouley; Part III. Representing Saints: 11. Liturgy Antoine Mazurek; 12. Hagiography Simon Ditchfield; 13. Images Cloe Cavero de Carondelet; 14. Literature Susannah Brietz Monta; Part IV. Living with Saints: 15. Material Culture Anne Mariss; 16. Confraternities Miguel A. Valerio; 17. Pilgrimage Elizabeth Tingle; Further Reading.

About the author

Jan Machielsen is Reader in Early Modern History at Cardiff University. He is the author of The Basque Witch Hunt (2024) and The Science of Demons (2020).Emily Michelson is Professor of History at the University of St Andrews. She is the author of Catholic Spectacle and Rome's Jews: Early Modern Conversion and Resistance (2022).Katrina Olds is Professor of History at the University of San Francisco and the author of Forging the Past: Invented Histories in Counter-Reformation Spain (2015).

Product details

• Authors: Jan (Cardiff University) Michelson Machielsen
• Assisted by: Machielsen Jan (Editor), Michelson Emily (Editor), Olds Katrina B. (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 30.11.2025
• EAN: 9781009199575
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0919957-5
• No. of pages: 350
• Series: Cambridge Companions to Religion
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; World, Europe, European History, RELIGION / History, History of Religion, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Christian life and practice, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, Relating to Christian people and groups