The texture of images : : the relic book in late-medieval religiosity and early modern aesthetics / / by Livia Cárdenas ; translated by Anne Simon.
"This study is the first fundamental analysis and synopsis of the printed relic-book genre. Printed relic books represent, both by image and text, precious reliquaries, which were presented to the faithful audience during special liturgical feasts, the display of relics. This study brings into...
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| Superior document: | Library of the Written Word ; Volume 85 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Library of the written word ;
Volume 85. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (574 pages). |
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Table of Contents:
- The diversification of the genre.
- Relic books. Mimesis as politics
- Competition between cities and printers
- Speculating on similarity
- Familiar means-new piety
- Aesthetic enhancement
- The relic book as stage mask : the media staging of social climbing and the accumulation of salvation
- Troy, Rome, Halle : history and genealogy
- Synthesis of a genre. The mediality of the relic book
- The texture of the book.