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 collection of essays offers a comparative perspective on religious materiality across the early modern world. Setting out from the premise that artefacts can provide material evidence of the nature of early modern religious practices and beliefs, the volume tests and challenges conventional narratives of change based on textual sources. Religious Materiality in the Early Modern World brings together scholars of Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, Islamic and Buddhist practices from a range of fields, including history, art history, museum curatorship and social anthropology. The result is an unprecedented account of the wealth and diversity of devotional objects and environments, with a strong emphasis on cultural encounters, connections and exchanges.
Introduction - Editors Part I - Meanings
1. Wax versus wood: the
material of votive offerings in Renaissance Italy - Mary Laven
2. The
substance of divine grace: Ex-votos and the material of paper in early modern
Italy - Maria Alessandra Chessa
3. Powerful objects in powerful places:
pilgrimage, relics and sacred texts in Tibetan Buddhism - Hildegard
Diemberger
4. Myer Myers: Silversmith in the Spanish-Portuguese Synagogue
Ledger - Vivian B. Mann Part II - Practices
5. Christian materiality between
East and West: Notes of a Capuchin among the Christians of the Ottoman Empire
- John-Paul Ghobrial
6. The materiality of death in early modern Venice -
Alexandra Bamji
7. Living with the Virgin in the Colonial Andes: Images and
personal devotion - Gabriela Ramos
8. 'Watching myself in the mirror, I saw
'Ali in my eyes': On Sufi visual and material practice in the Balkans - Sara
Kuehn Part III - Transformations
9. Religious materiality in the Kunstkammer
of Rudolf II - Suzanna Ivanic
10. The Reformation of the rosary bead:
Protestantism and the perpetuation of the Amber Pater Noster - Rachel King
11. Magical words: Arabic amulets in Christian Spain - Abigail Krasner
Balbale
12. Mesoamerican idols, Spanish medicine: Jade in the collection of
Philip II - Kate E. Holohan Epilogue - Caroline Walker Bynum Index
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. 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. 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.
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