El recurso al santoral en Castilla, del barroco a la Ilustración, 1650-1834

Abstract

The clearest manifestations of the castilian mentality during the Ancien Regime were related with the collective religiosity and the eternal salvation. Marian help was frecuently invoked and all the people always requeried Saints' aid. The importance of the holy works of art, the weight of the personal names and the continuous resort to the celestial court, especially to the Blessed Virgin show that it was compulsory to request the supernatural mediation in ocasions when someone needed protection. We can observe the permanences and the changes of numerous rituals of the popular piety from the Baroque times to the beginning of the rupture of the values which supported it thanks to the comparation of rural and urban areas and to the study of 10.000 wills and 500 inventories and partitions.