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Religious Materiality in the Early Modern World /

This collection of essays offers a comparative perspective on religious materiality across the early modern world. Setting out from the premise that artefacts can provide material evidence of the nature of early modern religious practices and beliefs, the volume tests and challenges conventional nar...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Morrall, Andrew (Editor ), Laven, Mary (Editor ), Ivanič, Suzanna (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2020
Colección:Visual and material culture, 1300-1700 ; 18.
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  • Wax versus wood : the material of votive offerings in Renaissance Italy / Mary Laven
  • The substance of divine grace : ex-votos and the material of paper in early modern Italy / Maria Alessandra Chessa
  • Powerful objects in powerful places : pilgrimage, relics and sacred texts in Tibetan Buddhism / Hildegard Diemberger
  • Myer Myers : silversmith in Spanish-Portuguese synagogue leader / Vivan B. Mann
  • Christian materiality between east and west : notes of a capuchin among Christians of the Ottoman Empire / John-Paul A. Ghobrial
  • The materiality of death in early modern Venice / Alexandra Bamji
  • Living with the virgin in the colonial Andes : images of person devotion / Gabriela Ramos
  • Watching myself in the mirror, I saw 'Alī in my eyes' : on Sufi visual and material practice in the Balkans / Sara Kuehn
  • Religion materiality in the Kunstkammer of Rudolf II / Susanna Ivanič
  • The reformation of the rosary bead : Protestantism and the perpetuation of the Amber Paternoster / Rachel King
  • Magical words : Arabic amulets in Christian Spain / Abigail Krasner Balbale
  • Mesoamerican idols, Spanish medicine : jade in the collection of Philip II / Kate E. Holohan.