@article{1378145,
      recid = {1378145},
      author = {Muneroni, Stefano,},
      title = {Hermenegildo and the Jesuits : Staging Sainthood in the  Early Modern Period /},
      pages = {1 online resource},
      abstract = {"This book explores the cultural conditions that led to  the emergence and proliferation of Saint Hermenegildo as a  stage character in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.  It considers how this saint became a theatrical trope  enabling the Society of Jesus to address religious and  secular concerns of the post-Tridentine Church, and to  discuss political issues such as the supremacy of the pope  over the monarch and the legitimacy of regicide. The book  goes on to explain how the Hermenegildo narrative developed  outside of Jesuit colleges, through works by professional  dramatist Lope de Vega and Mexican nun Juana Inés de la  Cruz. Stefano Muneroni takes a global approach to the  staging of Hermenegildo, tracing the character's journey  from Europe to the Americas, from male to female authors,  and from a sacrificial to a sacramental paradigm where the  emphasis shifts from bloodletting to spiritual salvation.  Given its interdisciplinary approach, this book is geared  toward scholars and students of theatre history, religion  and drama, early modern theology, cultural studies, romance  languages and literature, and the history of the Society of  Jesus"--},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1378145},
}