Introduction
Part 1. Creation and expansion of a cult (1345-1500)
1. The rise of Amsterdam
2. Religious context
3. The Miracle
4. Corpus Christi and Sacraments of Miracle
5. The bishop and the count
6. Miracles of the Miracle
7. Processions through the city
Part 2. In the Habsburgs’ Favor (1500-1600)
8. Royal interest in the Holy Stead
9. The Habsburgs and national consciousness
10. Eucharistic symbolism
11. The Reformation comes to Holland
12. A women’s resistance movement and the city’s identity
13. The failed coup of the Anabaptists in 1535
14. Disciplining faith and cult
15. 1566, the “miraculous year”
16. The end of Amsterdam as an international place of pilgrimage
Part 3. The Miracle on the margins (1600-1795)
17. Hidden devotion
18. Catholic hope and Reformed fear
19. The Miracle expressed
20. The Miracle celebrated
21. The Miracle weighed up
Part 4. The battle for public space (1795-1881)
22. A velvet revolution: change and continuity
23. 1845: the “Feast of Folly”
24. Antipapism and the ban on public space
25. The “Ultramontane miracle disease”
Part 5. The Silent Walk as a national symbol of identity (1881-1960)
26. The construction of the Silent Walk
27. Cult versus cultural heritage
28. A national cult
29. The practice of the Walk
30. The international Eucharistic movement
31. Politics and ideology: the interwar years and the Second World War
32. The post-war cult: climax and catharsis
Part 6. Revolution and the reinvention of tradition (1960-2015)
33. Reconstruction and affluence
34. Revolution in the long 1960s
35. Religion, market, and tradition
36. Ecumenical harmony?
37. Continuing, broken, restored, and new traditions
Part 7. Conflict or consensus?
Route of the Silent Walk
Timeline
Sources and literature
Index