Meaning of baroque piety | Babel Free
Definitions
An ostentatious form of popular Catholic piety, especially in Counter-Reformation Europe.
Examples
“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.”
“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.”
“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 [...].”
CEFR level
B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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