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The Ambiguities Of The Holy: Authenticating Relics In Seventeenth-Century Spain, Katrina B. Olds
The Ambiguities Of The Holy: Authenticating Relics In Seventeenth-Century Spain, Katrina B. Olds
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Recent scholarship has shown that, even at the heart of the Catholic world, defining holiness in the Counter-Reformation was remarkably difficult, in spite of ongoing Roman reforms meant to centralize and standardize the authentication of saints and relics. If the standards for evaluating sanctity were complex and contested in Rome, they were even less clear to regional actors, such as the Bishop of Jaén, who supervised the discovery of relics in Arjona, a southern Spanish town, beginning in 1628. The new relics presented the bishop, Cardinal Baltasar de Moscoso y Sandoval, with knotty historical, theological, and procedural dilemmas. As such, …
Visions Of Juliana: A Portuguese Woman At The Court Of The Mughals, Taymiya R. Zaman
Visions Of Juliana: A Portuguese Woman At The Court Of The Mughals, Taymiya R. Zaman
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This article discusses Juliana Dias da Costa (d. 1734), an influential Portuguese woman at the court of the Mughal king Bahadur Shah I (d. 1712). Through an analysis of sources that traverse three centuries and several languages, this article demonstrates how visions of Juliana were shaped by the political aspirations of those writing about her. To Jesuits, Juliana was a proxy for their mission in India, and to the Portuguese, she was one of their own, strategically placed at court to serve their interests. And for her impoverished descendants in British India, she was emblematic of times when they held …