Images on a Mission in Early Modern Kongo and Angola /

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Early modern central Africa comes to life in an extraordinary atlas of vivid watercolors and drawings that Italian Capuchin Franciscans, veterans of Kongo and Angola missions, composed between 1650 and 1750 for the training of future missionaries. These "practical guides" present the intri...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Fromont, Cécile (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: University Park, PA : Penn State University Press, [2022]
Temas:
Capuchin art > Angola > 17th century.
Capuchin art > Angola > 18th century.
Capuchin art > Kongo Kingdom > 17th century.
Capuchin art > Kongo Kingdom > 18th century.
ART / African.
Angola.
Atlantic World.
Capuchins.
Chinese rites controversy.
Franciscans.
Kongo kingdom.
Kongo.
accommodation.
botanical illustrations.
catechism.
central Africa.
conversion.
cross-cultural encounters.
cross-cultural images.
early modern Atlantic.
early modern period.
eighteenth century.
indigenous ontology.
manuscript.
mission.
natural history.
post-reformation.
pre-colonial Africa.
seventeenth century.
zoological illustrations.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1 "Nonsense" Capuchin Images of Kongo and Angola Against Italian Preconceptions
  • Chapter 2 Practical Guides to the Mission: The Capuchin Central- African Corpus
  • Chapter 3 Images and Devotion
  • Chapter 4 Images as Method
  • Chapter 5 Images Against Idolatry
  • Chapter 6 With "the Consent of the People, and the Secular Arm of the Prince"
  • Chapter 7 Penned by Encounter: Capuchins, Central Africans, and the Making of a Cross-Cultural Discourse
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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