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Images on a mission in early modern Kongo and Angola /

"Presents and analyzes a set of unpublished images from seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Kongo and Angola created within the Capuchin Franciscan mission to the region"--

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Fromont, Cécile (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2022]
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "Nonsense" : Capuchin images of Kongo and Angola against Italian preconceptions
  • Practical guides to the mission : the Capuchin Central-African corpus
  • Images and devotion
  • Images as method
  • Images against idolatry
  • With "the consent of the people, and the secular arm of the prince"
  • Penned by encounter : Capuchins, Central Africans, and the making of a cross-cultural discourse.