Pietas Austriaca

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CONTENTS Foreword by Charles Ingrao vii Preface by William D. Bowman ix Introduction by William D. Bowman xi Notes to the Text by William D. Bowman xix Anna Coreth’s Preface to the Second Edition xxi Introduction: Piety as a Princely Virtue 1 1. Eucharistic Piety (Pietas Eucharistica) 13 A) Imitation of Rudolph of Habsburg 13 B) Participation in Eucharistic Triumphal Processions 18 C) Veneration of the Eucharist by the Habsburgs up to the Twentieth Century 23 2. Faith in the Cross of Christ (Fiducia in Crucem Christi ) 37 3. Marian Piety (Pietas Mariana) 45 A) Mary Immaculate and the Habsburgs during the Counter Reformation 45 B) Mary as Supreme Commander (Generalissima) and Patron of Ferdinand II and Ferdinand III 50 C) Mary as Empress and Queen at the time of Leopold I 55 D) Crisis and the Last Flowering of the Baroque Veneration of Mary 60 E) Offshoots of the Baroque Marian Piety (Pietas Mariana) in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries 67 4. The Veneration of Saints 81 Coreth’s Primary Sources 89 Coreth’s Secondary Literature 92 Bibliography 99 Index 113  ...