Description
This study of the religious celebrations of Segovia is the most comprehensive to date on a subject for which material is lacking. The book is excellently researched and deals with its subject in a most clear manner which can be read easily. McGrath does not only study the different religious celebrations in the city of Segovia, but gives excellent background material on the Corpus Christi celebrations in Spain during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. . . . McGrath includes a plethora of documents from the period studied which are very useful in informing the reader about what was involved in the planning, funding, and execution of these celebrations with their accompanying dramatic pieces in Segovia. The study is further enhanced by offering the reader the historical background and the description of certain religious celebrations peculiar to the city of Segovia, the most important one being the celebrations surrounding the Virgin of the Fuencisla. . . . This is not only an excellent addition to Golden Age religious studies, but it is evident that it was a labor of love on the part of its author.
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