부산대학교 도서관

A) OBJECTIVES 1. To offer a global critical and scientific vision of the devotion of the Rosary and its confraternities in Spain during the Modernity from a selection of documentary unpublished or little known sources and a wide specialized bibliography. 2. To do a critical reading on the current condition of the knowledge on the genesis and evolution of the devotion of the Rosary and its first confraternities in Europe. 3. To provide new conclusions with regard to the fundamental milestones that form the Rosary and its confraternities in Spain, contextualing them in its historical and theological coordinates. 4. To link the historical contents with the contributions of the Theology and Anthropology. 5. To value the phenomenon of the rosary as fundamental reference not only for the study of the modern Spanish religiosity, but for any integral historical or theological investigation with regard to this period. 6. To encourage and to help the scientific study of the phenomenon of the rosary in Spain, offering a documentary and bibliographical reference and a condition of the updated question that allows a firm base for regional or local monographs. B) METHODOLOGY 1. Establishment of a condition of the question, checking in an exhaustive way the existing bibliography on the topic, both general and specific. 2. Consultation of an important glossary of documentary sources proceeding from files, by means of significant search esencially referee to the topic of confraternities, founded on almost all the parishes, priosstise the files of the Order of Preachers and diocesans. 3. Division of the topic in three big parts or fundamental stages in order to delimit on the one hand, but at the same time to integrate, the principal characteristics in the area of the Spanish Modernity defining its genesis, the first universal development and the popular appearance. 4. This division has decided the presentation of the thesis as a compendium of publications. 5. Primacy of the documentary thing in avoidance of apriorisms observed in bibliography. 6. Formulation of hypotheses of work and concretion of exact and new conclusions. C) CONCLUSIONS 1. This Thesis supposes a bibliographical review and a documentary significant contribution for the study of the phenomenon of the rosary and its confraternities in Spain during the Modern Age. It is the first time that a work of investigation is focused on this topic in the national area. 2. The major periods in which the topic can be divided make its integral and unitary comprehension. 2.1. The genesis of the Rosary coincides with the Catholic “Prerreforma” and places first in the Benedictine and Carthusian orbit (from XIIIth to XVth century) to conform definitively in the bosom of the Observance of the Preachers' Order to the foundation of the Confraternity of the Rosario (Alano de la Roca and Jacobo Sprenger, 1475). In Spain confraternities are stated already in the last third of the 15th century. 2.2. After Trent, the Rosary acquires the first universalization concerning the event of Lepanto (1571), a whole vindicative milestone of the Church that in Spain reaches a very special significance. It is interwoven in the pastoral one that from the sponsorship assumed of the Dominicans, overcomes it and is promoted by the ordinary diocesans in all the Spanish parishes by the foundation of lay confraternities and also clerical, turning the prayer into practice of the devotion into the Popular Missions. 2.3. This universalization will be the trigger of authentic " explosion rosariana " that supposes the phenomenon of the public Rosaries, singular and paradigmatic practice of the religiosity, which, arisen at the end of the 17th century in Seville, will be the paradigm of the Rosario par excellence to the present day in the whole peninsular and insular geography.