Religious Materiality in the Early Modern World

Published by Amsterdam University Press 2019

Religious Materiality in the Early Modern World

Edited by: Suzanna Ivanic , Mary Laven and Andrew Morrall

Volume 18 in the series Visual and Material Culture, 1300 –1700

https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048535422

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Ivanic Suzanna :

Suzanna Ivanic is Lecturer in Early Modern European History at the University of Kent. Her research focuses on religion and material culture in central Europe and she has published on religious material culture and on travelogues in early modern Bohemia. She is currently working on a monograph on the religious materiality of seventeenth-century Prague.Laven Mary :

Mary Laven is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Cambridge. While she has published on many different aspects of religion, her recent work has focused especially on the material culture of devotion. In 2017, she co-curated the exhibition, Madonnas and Miracles: The Holy Home in Renaissance Italy at the Fitzwilliam Museum.Morrall Andrew :

Andrew Morrall is Professor of Early Modern Art and Material Culture at the Bard Graduate Center, New York. He has written widely on the visual and material culture of the Reformation and, most recently, on urban craft productions and the Kunstkammer. His publications include Jörg Breu the Elder: Art, Culture and Belief in Reformation Augsburg.

Reviews

"This volume is a fine example of what the material turn in historical studies can produce. All of the essays are framed as historical rather than theoretical projects and proceed by historicizing materiality within the coordinates of time and place. The prose is uniformly clear and lends the book to classroom use. Readers will benefit from the authors’ careful attention to the material characteristics of the artifacts and practices they study. All of the essays teach in one way or another that matter matters. What things are made of, how they are made, and how people used them come to the fore to demonstrate the difference that the material turn makes in historical work."
- David Morgan, Duke University, Renaissance Quarterly, Volume LXXIV, No. 2, 2021

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
List of Illustrations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	7
Abbreviations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
Acknowledgements Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
Introduction Suzanna Ivanič, Mary Laven and Andrew Morrall Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
Part I – Meanings
1. Wax versus Wood: The Material of Votive Offerings in Renaissance Italy Mary Laven Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	35
2. The Substance of Divine Grace: Ex-votos and the Material of Paper in Early Modern Italy Maria Alessandra Chessa Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
3. Powerful Objects in Powerful Places: Pilgrimage, Relics and Sacred Texts in Tibetan Buddhism Hildegard Diemberger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
4. Myer Myers: Silversmith in the Spanish-Portuguese Synagogue Ledger Vivian B. Mann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	85
Part II – Practices
5. Christian Materiality between East and West: Notes of a Capuchin among the Christians of the Ottoman Empire John-Paul A. Ghobrial Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
6. The Materiality of Death in Early Modern Venice Alexandra Bamji Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
7. Living with the Virgin in the Colonial Andes: Images and Personal Devotion Gabriela Ramos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137
8. ‘Watching myself in the mirror, I saw ʿAlī in my eyes’: On Sufi Visual and Material Practice in the Balkans Sara Kuehn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	151
Part III – Transformations
9. Religious Materiality in the Kunstkammer of Rudolf II Suzanna Ivanič Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
10. The Reformation of the Rosary Bead: Protestantism and the Perpetuation of the Amber Paternoster Rachel King Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193
11. Magical Words: Arabic Amulets in Christian Spain Abigail Krasner Balbale Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
12. Mesoamerican Idols, Spanish Medicine: Jade in the Collection of Philip II Kate E. Holohan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	229
Epilogue Caroline Walker Bynum Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	247
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	257

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Language: English
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 286
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 38
- Coloured Illustrations: 26
Keywords: Religion; Material Culture; Early Modern; Global History; Images

eBook

Published: November 4, 2019
ISBN: 9789048535422