13 April 2023
Volume 9 issue 2 (2022) of the Journal of Early Modern Christianity is dedicated to the topic “Pillars of a Sacred World. The 1622 Canonizations and the Rise of Modern Catholic Sanctity”. Guest editors are Franco Motta and Eleonora Rai.
Contents:
Franco Motta and Eleonora Rai
The Birth of Modern Sanctity: The 1622 Canonizations
Ronnie Po-chia Hsia
A Holy Flood of Saints: The 1622 Canonizations
Open Access
Christian Renoux
The Quintuple Canonization of 1622: Between the Renewal of the Making of Saints and Claims for Pontifical Monopoly
Ronnie Po-chia Hsia
War Saints: The Canonization of 1622
Pamela M. Jones
Framing Sainthood in 1622: Teresa of Ávila, Ignatius of Loyola, and Francis Xavier
Ralph Dekoninck and Annick Delfosse
The Distinctive Features of Religious Festivities in the Spanish Netherlands: The Douai Celebrations for the Canonisation of Ignatius of Loyola and Francis Xavier
Jonathan E. Greenwood
Conversion and Sanctity in Print: The Episode of Ignatius of Loyola and Isaac, the Roman Jew ca. 1600
Open Access
Elisa Frei
Glorifying Francis Xavier’s (1506–1552) Good Deeds or Miracles? The Negotiation of Sanctity in Daniello Bartoli’s Asia (1653)
Thomas J. Santa Maria
Dying in the Odor of Sanctity: Philip Neri and the Performance of Saintly Death in Catholic Reformation Rome
Saverio Sturm
1622, the Fatal Year for the Discalced Carmelites: The Canonisation of Teresa, the Crystallisation of Conventual Typologies, and the Reinvention of Iconography
Stefan Samerski
On the Canonization of the Founders of Religious Orders in Early Modern Times
Andrew R. Hay
A Personal Union: Reformed Christology and the Question of the Communicatio Idiomatum
