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“A desora desperto y vio una grand claridat”: the role of dreams and light in the construction of a multi-confessional audience of the miracles of the Virgin of Guadalupe

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dc.contributor.author Valdés Sánchez, Amanda
dc.date.accessioned 2021-04-14T08:16:12Z
dc.date.available 2021-04-14T08:16:12Z
dc.date.issued 2019
dc.identifier.citation Valdés Sánchez A. “A desora desperto y vio una grand claridat”: the role of dreams and light in the construction of a multi-confessional audience of the miracles of the Virgin of Guadalupe. Religions. 2019 Nov 29;10(12):652. DOI: 10.3390/rel10120652
dc.identifier.issn 2077-1444
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/47110
dc.description.abstract This paper examines the religious proselytizing agenda of the order of Saint Jerome that ruled the Extremaduran sanctuary of the Virgin of Guadalupe since 1389. To this end, I analyze how the Hieronymite’s used literary motifs such as dreams and light in the codex of the Miracles of the Virgin of Guadalupe to create a multi-confessional audience for their collection of miracles. I contend that these motifs were chosen because they were key elements in the construction of a particular image of the Virgin that could appeal to pilgrims of different faiths. Through them, the Hieronymites evoked in the minds of Muslim pilgrims and Christian captives beyond the sea the imagery and rhetoric of Sufi devotional literature and Islamic hagiography, in order to create a vision of the Virgin that was able to compete with the more important Islamic devotional figures: the Prophet, Sufi masters and charismatic saints. Finally, I explore how the possible influence of North African devotional models, such as the Shadhiliyya order or the hagiography of the Tunisian saint, Aisha al-Manubiyya, suggests that the aims of the monastic authors of this Marian miracles collection went far beyond the conversion of Castilian Muslims, aiming at the transformation of the Extremaduran Marian sanctuary of Guadalupe into a Mediterranean devotional center.
dc.description.sponsorship This paper is the result of my PhD research funded by the Fellowship Program of “La Caixa” Foundation (ID 100010434), with code LCF/BQ/DE17/11600020.
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dc.language.iso eng
dc.publisher MDPI
dc.relation.ispartof Religions. 2019 Nov 29;10(12):652
dc.rights © 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
dc.rights.uri http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.title “A desora desperto y vio una grand claridat”: the role of dreams and light in the construction of a multi-confessional audience of the miracles of the Virgin of Guadalupe
dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel10120652
dc.subject.keyword Dreams
dc.subject.keyword Light
dc.subject.keyword Miracles
dc.subject.keyword Virgin
dc.subject.keyword Religious proselytism
dc.subject.keyword Conversion
dc.subject.keyword Sufism
dc.subject.keyword Castile
dc.subject.keyword North Africa
dc.subject.keyword Captives
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