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Pueblo de santos y peregrinaciones en las diócesis de Autun y de Nevers: del tiempo de los mártires al tiempo de las reformas, IV - XVIII siglos

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Between the IVth and the XVIIIth century in Burgundy (Nevers to Vezelay area), the number of pilgrimage churches have increased with an important renewal rate. Indeed, the choice of saints, institutions, or objects of devotion depends on various references. Adapting the framework and updating hagiography to the evolution of piety are means of preservation against disinterest and decreased gains. What is miraculous or not is changing and depends on unstable religious and social settings, therefore it becomes necessary to consider both important and sustainable sites than short-lived ones and vain attempts to develop a pilgrimage site. By resorting as much as possible to the original documents we tried to show the modulations s of this devotion by analyzing the chronological movement of a hundred place of worship in contrast to the unhistorical approach developed in plethoric clerical literature of the nineteenth century.