Pietas Austriaca: Austrian Religious Practices in the Baroque Era
Anna Coreth's work appeared originally in 1959. Her interpretation focuses on the relationship of Catholic religious practices and symbols to the House of Habsburg from the Counter or Catholic Reformation until the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Coreth demonstrates how elements of religiosity and spirituality, particularly those surrounding the Catholic Eucharistic and Marian celebrations, became part of the Habsburg ruling style. She discusses the imperial house's dedication to...
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Pietas Austriaca is what Coreth calls the religious-political ideology of the Habsburg dynasty, which ruled one of Europe's largest empires from the 1560s to the 1780s. It serves as the pivotal concept in her account of the relationship between religious beliefs and practices and Habsburg political culture during the two centuries. No information is provided about the original German publication; the translation is by William D. Bowman and Anna Maria Leitgeb. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
ForewordPrefaceIntroductionNotes to the TextAnna Coreth's Preface to the Second EditionIntroduction: Piety as a Princely Virtue11Eucharistic Piety (Pietas Eucharistica)13AImitation of Rudolph of Habsburg13BParticipation in Eucharistic Triumphal Processions18CVeneration of the Eucharist by the Habsburgs up to the Twentieth Century232Faith in the Cross of Christ (Fiducia in Crucem Christi)373Marian Piety (Pietas Mariana)45AMary Immaculate and the Habsburgs during the Counter Reformation45BMary as Supreme Commander (Generalissima) and Patron of Ferdinand II and Ferdinand III50CMary as Empress and Queen at the time of Leopold I55DCrisis and the Last Flowering of the Baroque Veneration of Mary60EOffshoots of the Baroque Marian Piety (Pietas Mariana) in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries674The Veneration of Saints81Coreth's Primary Sources89Coreth's Secondary Literature92Bibliography99Index113
