The Miracle of Amsterdam - Charles Caspers, Peter Jan Margry

The Miracle of Amsterdam

Biography of a Contested Devotion
Buch | Hardcover
464 Seiten
2019
University of Notre Dame Press (Verlag)
978-0-268-10565-5 (ISBN)
72,30 inkl. MwSt
Caspers and Margry present a cultural biography of the Amsterdam Eucharistic Miracle that led to the rise of Amsterdam as a city and religious contention during the Reformation.
The Miracle of Amsterdam presents a “cultural biography” of a Dutch devotional manifestation. According to tradition, on the night of March 15, 1345, a Eucharistic host thrown into a burning fireplace was found intact hours later. A chapel was erected over the spot, and the citizens of Amsterdam became devoted to their “Holy Stead." From the original Eucharistic processions evolved the custom of individual devotees walking around the chapel while praying in silence, and the growing international pilgrimage site contributed to the rise and prosperity of Amsterdam.


With the arrival of the Reformation, the Amsterdam Miracle became a point of contention between Catholics and Protestants, and the changing fortunes of this devotion provide us a front-row seat to the challenges facing religion in the world today. Caspers and Margry trace these transformations and their significance through the centuries, from the Catholic medieval period through the Reformation to the present day.

Charles Caspers is an expert in the field of popular devotions, spirituality, liturgy, and mission history. Together with Peter Jan Margry he published a four-volume study on pilgrimage sites in the Netherlands. He is a senior fellow of the Titus Brandsma Institute in Nijmegen. Peter Jan Margry is professor of European ethnology at the University of Amsterdam and a senior fellow at the Meertens Institute. He is the editor of Shrines and Pilgrimage in the Modern World: New Itineraries into the Sacred.

Introduction


Part 1. Creation and expansion of a cult (1345-1500)


1. The rise of Amsterdam


2. Religious context


3. The Miracle


4. Corpus Christi and Sacraments of Miracle


5. The bishop and the count


6. Miracles of the Miracle


7. Processions through the city


Part 2. In the Habsburgs’ Favor (1500-1600)


8. Royal interest in the Holy Stead


9. The Habsburgs and national consciousness


10. Eucharistic symbolism


11. The Reformation comes to Holland


12. A women’s resistance movement and the city’s identity


13. The failed coup of the Anabaptists in 1535


14. Disciplining faith and cult


15. 1566, the “miraculous year”


16. The end of Amsterdam as an international place of pilgrimage


Part 3. The Miracle on the margins (1600-1795)


17. Hidden devotion


18. Catholic hope and Reformed fear


19. The Miracle expressed


20. The Miracle celebrated


21. The Miracle weighed up


Part 4. The battle for public space (1795-1881)


22. A velvet revolution: change and continuity


23. 1845: the “Feast of Folly”


24. Antipapism and the ban on public space


25. The “Ultramontane miracle disease”


Part 5. The Silent Walk as a national symbol of identity (1881-1960)


26. The construction of the Silent Walk


27. Cult versus cultural heritage


28. A national cult


29. The practice of the Walk


30. The international Eucharistic movement


31. Politics and ideology: the interwar years and the Second World War


32. The post-war cult: climax and catharsis


Part 6. Revolution and the reinvention of tradition (1960-2015)


33. Reconstruction and affluence


34. Revolution in the long 1960s


35. Religion, market, and tradition


36. Ecumenical harmony?


37. Continuing, broken, restored, and new traditions


Part 7. Conflict or consensus?


Route of the Silent Walk


Timeline


Sources and literature


Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 1 Maps; 40 Halftones, black and white
Verlagsort Notre Dame IN
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 790 g
Themenwelt Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Mittelalter
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Religionsgeschichte
Religion / Theologie Christentum Kirchengeschichte
Religion / Theologie Christentum Liturgik / Homiletik
ISBN-10 0-268-10565-0 / 0268105650
ISBN-13 978-0-268-10565-5 / 9780268105655
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