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Religious materiality in the early modern world /

This edited volume is the first work to engage with religious materiality comparatively across the early modern world. It demonstrates how artefacts can provide their own bodies of material evidence about the nature of early modern religious practice and belief - and the nature of religious change -...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Ivanič, Suzanna (Editor ), Laven, Mary (Editor ), Morrall, Andrew (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2019]
Colección:Visual and material culture, 1300-1700 ; 18.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Abbreviations
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • 1. Wax versus Wood: The Material of Votive Offerings in Renaissance Italy
  • 2. The Substance of Divine Grace: Ex-votos and the Material of Paper in Early Modern Italy
  • 3. Powerful Objects in Powerful Places: Pilgrimage, Relics and Sacred Texts in Tibetan Buddhism
  • 4. Myer Myers: Silversmith in the Spanish-Portuguese Synagogue Ledger
  • 5. Christian Materiality between East and West: Notes of a Capuchin among the Christians of the Ottoman Empire
  • 6. The Materiality of Death in Early Modern Venice
  • 7. Living with the Virgin in the Colonial Andes: Images and Personal Devotion
  • 8. 'Watching myself in the mirror, I saw ʻAlī in my eyes': On Sufi Visual and Material Practice in the Balkans
  • 9. Religious Materiality in the Kunstkammer of Rudolf II
  • 10. The Reformation of the Rosary Bead: Protestantism and the Perpetuation of the Amber Paternoster
  • 11. Magical Words: Arabic Amulets in Christian Spain
  • 12. Mesoamerican Idols, Spanish Medicine: Jade in the Collection of Philip II
  • Epilogue
  • Index