Religious Materiality in the Early Modern World /

Religious Materiality in the Early Modern World / / ed. by Mary Laven, Suzanna Ivanic, Andrew Morrall.

Religious Materiality in the Early Modern World investigates for the first time how seismic religious changes, a dramatic rise in the availability and consumption of goods, and new global connections transformed the nature and experience of religious material life.[-][-]This edited volume is the fir...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
MitwirkendeR:
Bamji, Alexandra,
Chessa, Maria Alessandra,
Diemberger, Hildegard,
Ghobrial, John-Paul A.,
Holohan, Kate E.,
Ivanič, Suzanna,
King, Rachel,
Krasner Balbale, Abigail,
Kuehn, Sara,
Laven, Mary,
Mann, Vivian B.,
Morrall, Andrew,
Ramos, Gabriela,
Walker Bynum, Caroline,
HerausgeberIn:
Ivanic, Suzanna,
Laven, Mary,
Morrall, Andrew,
Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2019]
©2019
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Visual and Material Culture, 1300 –1700 ; 18
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Physical Description:1 online resource (286 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Abbreviations
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Part I – Meanings
  • 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
  • Part II – Practices
  • 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 ʿAlī in my eyes’: On Sufi Visual and Material Practice in the Balkans
  • Part III – Transformations
  • 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

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