baroque piety
English
Noun
- (historical) An ostentatious form of popular Catholic piety, especially in Counter-Reformation Europe.
- 1979, Jean Bérenger, ‘The Austrian Church’, Church and Society in Catholic Europe of the Eighteenth Century, Cambridge 1979, p. 101:
- Outside the crypto-Protestants and a small elite attracted to Jansenism after 1750 the bulk of the population, in Bohemia as in Austria, had been won over to baroque piety.
- 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 94:
- Post-Tridentine worship was in essence a baroque piety which expressed itself in florid ostentation and which used all the media of communication and the material culture of worship to make a powerful sensorial assault on the life of the spirit.
- 2011, Helmut Walser Smith (ed.), Oxford Handbook of Modern German History, Oxford 2011, p. 213:
- This shifting stance among both educated elites and secular rulers toward Baroque piety would be a crucial precondition for the spread of enlightened ideas in Catholic Germany [...].
- 1979, Jean Bérenger, ‘The Austrian Church’, Church and Society in Catholic Europe of the Eighteenth Century, Cambridge 1979, p. 101:
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