Illustrated Religious Texts in the North of Europe, 1500-1800 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Illustrated Religious Texts in the North of Europe, 1500-1800 write by Feike Dietz. This book was released on 2016-12-05. Illustrated Religious Texts in the North of Europe, 1500-1800 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In recent years many historians have argued that the Reformation did not - as previously thought - hamper the development of Northern European visual culture, but rather gave new impetus to the production, diffusion and reception of visual materials in both Catholic and Protestant milieus. This book investigates the crosscurrents of exchange in the realm of illustrated religious literature within and beyond confessional and national borders, and against the background of recent insights into the importance of, on the one hand material, as well as on the other hand, sensual and emotional aspects of early modern culture. Each chapter in the volume helps illuminate early modern religious culture from the perspective of the production of illustrated religious texts - to see the book as object, a point at which various vectors of early modern society met. Case studies, together with theoretical contributions, shed light on the ways in which illustrated religious books functioned in evolving societies, by analysing the use, re-use and sharing of illustrated religious texts in England, France, the Low Countries, the German States, and Switzerland. Interpretations based on points of material interaction show us how the most basic binaries of the early modern world - Catholic and Protestant, word and image, public and private - were disrupted and negotiated in the realm of the illustrated religious book. Through this approach, the volume expands the historical appreciation of the place of imagery in post-Reformation Europe.
Queens Consort, Cultural Transfer and European Politics, c.1500-1800
Queens Consort, Cultural Transfer and European Politics, c.1500-1800 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Queens Consort, Cultural Transfer and European Politics, c.1500-1800 write by Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly. This book was released on 2016-11-03. Queens Consort, Cultural Transfer and European Politics, c.1500-1800 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Queens Consort, Cultural Transfer and European Politics examines the roles that queens consort played in dynastic politics and cultural transfer between their natal and marital courts during the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. This collection of essays analyses the part that these queens played in European politics, showing how hard and soft power, high politics and cultural influences, cannot be strictly separated. It shows that the root of these consorts’ power lay in their dynastic networks and the extent to which they cultivated them. The consorts studied in this book come from territories such as Austria, Braunschweig, Hanover, Poland, Portugal, Prussia and Saxony and travel to, among other places, Britain, Naples, Russia, Spain and Sweden. The various chapters address different types of cultural manifestation, among them collecting, portraiture, panegyric poetry, libraries, theatre and festivals, learning, genealogical literature and architecture. The volume significantly shifts the direction of scholarship by moving beyond a focus on individual historical women to consider ‘queens consort’ as a category, making it valuable reading for students and scholars of early modern gender and political history.
The Primacy of the Image in Northern European Art, 1400–1700
The Primacy of the Image in Northern European Art, 1400–1700 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Primacy of the Image in Northern European Art, 1400–1700 write by Debra Cashion. This book was released on 2017-08-21. The Primacy of the Image in Northern European Art, 1400–1700 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An anthology of 42 essays by distinguished scholars on current research and methodology in the art history of the late medieval and early modern periods in Germany, France, the Netherlands, and Belgium, written in tribute to Larry Silver, Farquhar Professor of the History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania.
Northern European Reformations
Northern European Reformations - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Northern European Reformations write by James E. Kelly. This book was released on 2020-09-22. Northern European Reformations available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines the experiences and interconnections of the Reformations, principally in Denmark-Norway and Britain and Ireland (but with an eye to the broader Scandinavian landscape as well), and also discusses instances of similarities between the Reformations in both realms. The volume features a comprehensive introduction, and provides a broad survey of the beginnings and progress of the Catholic and Protestant Reformations in Northern Europe, while also highlighting themes of comparison that are common to all of the bloc under consideration, which will be of interest to Reformation scholars across this geographical region.
Semper Reformanda
Semper Reformanda - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Semper Reformanda write by Barbara Pitkin. This book was released on 2018-02-19. Semper Reformanda available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The chapters in this volume contribute to recent scholarship exploring the reform of worship as a central feature of Protestant communities at their inception and through the ages. Case studies ranging from sixteenth-century Geneva and its environs to the early modern Netherlands and South Asia to nineteenth-century America provide a corrective to traditional depictions of Reformed worship as a static, sober, interior, and largely individual experience focused on the sermon. The key moments in the broad stream of Reformed worship traditions analysed by an international team of experts yield collectively an image of the adaptive and negotiated character of worship attitudes and practices over time and in varied cultural settings. The contributions examine the phenomenon of worship in broadly construed ways and from angles ranging from ritual studies, liturgical innovation, material culture, and social impact. A second »red thread« running through the volume concerns the material, sensory, emotional, and experiential dimensions of Reformed religious culture. Worship emerges as both a site of conflict and renewal in Reformed traditions, inspiring not only confrontations and debates but also fruitful engagements that stimulated and continue to invite reflection on this critical category of Reformed faith traditions, self-understandings, and cultural impact.
