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Dissimilar similitudes : devotional objects in late Medieval Europe /

"Between the twelfth and the sixteenth centuries, European Christians used in worship a plethora of objects, not only prayer books, statues, and paintings but also pieces of natural materials, such as stones and earth, considered to carry holiness, dolls representing Jesus and Mary, and even bi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bynum, Caroline Walker (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Zone Books, 2020.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction. Holy Things and the Problem of Likeness
  • Holy Beds : Gender and Encounter in Devotional Objects from Fifteenth-Century Europe
  • "Crowned with Many Crowns" : Nuns and Their Statues in Late Medieval Wienhausen
  • The Sacrality of Things : An Inquiry into Divine Materiality in the Christian Middle Ages
  • The Presence of Objects : Medieval Anti-Judaism in Modern Germany
  • Avoiding the Tyranny of Morphology : Or, Why Compare?
  • The Xenophilia of a Medievalist.