Title: Wondrous in his saints: counter-Reformation propaganda in Bavaria Author: Soergel, Philip M
Published: University of California Press, 1993
Subjects: History |
European History |
Christianity |
Medieval HistoryPublisher's Description: At the close of the sixteenth century, despite Protestant attempts to discourage popular devotion to saints and shrines, the Roman Church in Bavaria initiated a propagandistic campaign through the publishing of pilgrimage books and pamphlets. Philip Soergel's cogent exploration of this little-known . . .
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