Pietas Austriaca: Austrian Religious Practices in the Baroque Era

by Anna Coreth and William David Bowman, Translator

Pietas Austriaca is a path-breaking study of the relationship between religious beliefs and practices and the Habsburg political culture from the end of the medieval period to the early twentieth century. In this seminal work, originally published in 1959, Anna Coreth examines the ways that Catholic beliefs in the power of the Eucharist, the cross, the Virgin Mary, and saints were crucial for the Habsburg ruling dynasties in Austria and Spain...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1557531595
• ISBN13: 9781557531599
• Release Date: February 2004
• Publisher: Purdue University Press
• Length: 117 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 9.0"