The reform of Catholic festival culture in eighteenth-century Austria: A clash of mentalities

Eighteenth-century Austria inherited a rich festival culture from the Baroque Catholicism of the Counter-Reformation. Even before the Josephinian Enlightenment of the 1780s, however, both secular and ecclesiastical authorities tried to reduce the number of processions, pilgrimages and feast-days, on...

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Main Author: Robertson, R
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Modern Humanities Research Association 2018