Religion, the supernatural, and visual culture in early modern Europe : : an album amicorum for Charles Zika / / edited by Jennifer Spinks and Dagmar Eichberger.

• Superior document: Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions, Volume 191
• TeilnehmendeR: Spinks, Jennifer,; Eichberger, Dagmar,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, Massachusetts : : Brill,, 2015.; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions ; Volume 191.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (437 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

This volume brings together some of the most exciting new scholarship on these themes, and thus pays tribute to the ground-breaking work of Charles Zika. Seventeen interdisciplinary essays offer new insights into the materiality and belief systems of early modern religious cultures as found in artworks, books, fragmentary texts and even in Protestant ‘relics’. Some contributions reassess communal and individual responses to cases of possession, others focus on witchcraft and manifestations of the disordered natural world. Canonical figures and events, from Martin Luther to the Salem witch trials, are looked at afresh. Collectively, these essays demonstrate how cultural and interdisciplinary trends in religious history illuminate the experiences of early modern Europeans. Contributors: Susan Broomhall, Heather Dalton, Dagmar Eichberger, Peter Howard, E. J. Kent, Brian P. Levack, Dolly MacKinnon, Louise Marshall, Donna Merwick, Leigh T.I. Penman, Shelley Perlove, Lyndal Roper, Peter Sherlock, Larry Silver, Patricia Simons, Jennifer Spinks, Hans de Waardt and Alexandra Walsham.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Introduction: Scholarship, Friendship and Border-Crossing -- 1 The Collaboration from Hell: A Plague Strike Force at S. Pietro in Vincoli, Rome / Louise Marshall -- 2 The Demonic Possession of Richard Dugdale / Brian P. Levack -- 3 Salem Girls (1692): Problems of Gender and Agency / E. J. Kent -- 4 “Ringing of the Bells by Four White Spirits”: Two Seventeenth-Century English Earwitness Accounts of the Supernatural in Print Culture / Dolly MacKinnon -- 5 “It is a Great Disgrace for Our City”: Archbishop Antoninus and Heresy in Renaissance Florence / Peter Howard -- 6 Endor and Amsterdam: The Image of Witchcraft as a Weapon in the Political Arena / Hans de Waardt -- 7 Deep Down in Spirituality: Efforts of Seventeenth-Century New Netherlanders to Access God / Donna Merwick -- 8 Paraluther: Explaining an Unexpected Portrait of Paracelsus in Andreas Hartmann’s Curriculum Vitae Lutheri (1601) / Leigh T. I. Penman -- 9 “Making Feast of the Prisoner”: Roger Barlow, Hans Staden and Ideas of New World Cannibalism / Heather Dalton -- 10 Signs that Speak: Reporting the 1556 Comet across French and German Borders / Jennifer Spinks -- 11 Disorder in the Natural World: The Perspectives of the Sixteenth-Century Provincial Convent / Susan Broomhall -- 12 De Profundis: Linear Leviathans in the Lowlands / Larry Silver -- 13 The Ferocious Dragon and the Docile Elephant: The Unleashing of Sin in Rembrandt’s Garden of Eden / Shelley Perlove -- 14 Salience and the Snail: Liminality and Incarnation in Francesco del Cossa’s Annunciation (c. 1470) / Patricia Simons -- 15 Luther Relics / Lyndal Roper -- 16 The Art of Making Memory: Epitaphs, Tables and Adages at Westminster Abbey / Peter Sherlock -- 17 The Pope’s Merchandise and the Jesuits’ Trumpery: Catholic Relics and Protestant Polemic in Post-Reformation England / Alexandra Walsham -- Index of Names and Places.