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Bases de dades: Sciència.cat
MacInnes, Ian, "Stigmata on trial: The nun of Portugal and the politics of the body", Viator, 31 (2000), 381-397.
- Resum
- This article evaluates the story of one particular holy woman in the sixteenth century, Sor Maria de la Visitación, known to many of her contemporaries as the "Nun of Portugal." For a brief period Sor Maria, a professed stigmatic, was one of the most famous women in Europe. In the events following the defeat of the Spanish armada, however, she quickly fell from grace and was convicted by the Inquisition of fraudulent stigmatism. Sor Maria's trajectory, from universal religious renown to acute political disgrace, illustrates part of the changing understanding of the body in the Renaissance. Her story shows both the extraordinary amount of popular religious sentiment attached to the wounded human body in the early modem period and the deep cultural anxieties it could elicit. The most influential wounds in sixteenth-century European thought were the wounds of Christ; arguments over the meaning of these wounds contributed to the great religious and political struggle between Reformation and Counter-Reformation. Stigmatics were powerful agents in this contest because they provided sensational and visible evidence of divine favor, but their influence over popular opinion often led to anxiety and suspicion about the value of their sanctity. The careful investigation by the Inquisition, with its foregone conclusions about Sor Maria's fraudulence, reflects much larger anxieties about institutional authority over voices like hers. It shows how the authentication and reproduction of these voices increasingly threatened to escape the control of the institutions that stood to profit or lose in their deployment.
- Matèries
- Religió - Espiritualitat
Biografia
Dones
Església - Inquisició
Medicina - Cirurgia i anatomia
- URL
- https://www.researchgate.net/publication/285156756_ ...
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