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Religion, the Supernatural and Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe
An album amicorum for Charles Zika
Series: - Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions, Volume: 191
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 ârelicsâ. 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.
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.
Jennifer Spinks is Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Manchester. Her work often concerns print culture and contested religious identities in northern Europe, and her publications include Monstrous Births and Visual Culture in Sixteenth-Century Germany (2009).
Dagmar Eichberger teaches Late Medieval and Early Modern Art History in Trier and Heidelberg and is academic coordinator of artifex. She is co-editor of Civic Artists & Court Artists (with Philippe Lorentz) and Visual Typology in Early Modern Europe (with Shelley Perlove).
Dagmar Eichberger teaches Late Medieval and Early Modern Art History in Trier and Heidelberg and is academic coordinator of artifex. She is co-editor of Civic Artists & Court Artists (with Philippe Lorentz) and Visual Typology in Early Modern Europe (with Shelley Perlove).
âa fitting tribute to the career of a pathbreaking scholar.â
Michael D. Bailey, Iowa State University. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 69, No. 3 (Fall 2016), pp. 1048-1049.
Michael D. Bailey, Iowa State University. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 69, No. 3 (Fall 2016), pp. 1048-1049.
Introduction
Scholarship, Friendship and Border-Crossing
Jennifer Spinks and Dagmar Eichberger
Part I: Supernatural Agency and Communities of Belief
The Collaboration From Hell: A plague strike force at S. Pietro in Vincoli, Rome
Louise Marshall
The Demonic Possession of Richard Dugdale
Brian P. Levack
Salem Girls (1692): Problems of gender and agency
E. J. Kent
âRinging of the bells by four white spiritsâ: Two seventeenth-century English earwitness accounts of the supernatural in print culture
Dolly MacKinnon
Part II: Religion and Cultural Authority
âIt is a great disgrace for our cityâ: Archbishop Antoninus and heresy in Renaissance Florence
Peter Howard
Endor and Amsterdam: The image of witchcraft as a weapon in the political arena
Hans de Waardt
Deep Down in Spirituality: Efforts of seventeenth-century New Netherlanders to access God
Donna Merwick
Paraluther: Explaining an unexpected portrait of Paracelsus in Andreas Hartmannâs Curriculum vitae Lutheri (1601)
Leigh T. I. Penman
Part III: The (Un)natural World
âMaking feast of the prisonerâ: Roger Barlow, Hans Staden and ideas of New World cannibalism
Heather Dalton
Signs that Speak: Reporting the 1556 comet across French and German borders
Jennifer Spinks
Disorder in the Natural World: The perspectives of the sixteenth-century provincial convent
Susan Broomhall
De Profundis: Linear Leviathans in the Lowlands
Larry Silver
The Ferocious Dragon and the Docile Elephant: The unleashing of sin in Rembrandtâs Garden of Eden
Shelley Perlove
Part IV: Artefacts and Material Culture
Salience and the Snail: Liminality and incarnation in Francesco del Cossaâs Annunciation (c. 1470)
Patricia Simons
Luther Relics
Lyndal Roper
The Art of Making Memory: Epitaphs, tables and adages at Westminster Abbey
Peter Sherlock
The Popeâs Merchandise and the Jesuitsâ Trumpery: Catholic relics and Protestant polemic in post-Reformation England
Alexandra Walsham
Index
Scholarship, Friendship and Border-Crossing
Jennifer Spinks and Dagmar Eichberger
Part I: Supernatural Agency and Communities of Belief
The Collaboration From Hell: A plague strike force at S. Pietro in Vincoli, Rome
Louise Marshall
The Demonic Possession of Richard Dugdale
Brian P. Levack
Salem Girls (1692): Problems of gender and agency
E. J. Kent
âRinging of the bells by four white spiritsâ: Two seventeenth-century English earwitness accounts of the supernatural in print culture
Dolly MacKinnon
Part II: Religion and Cultural Authority
âIt is a great disgrace for our cityâ: Archbishop Antoninus and heresy in Renaissance Florence
Peter Howard
Endor and Amsterdam: The image of witchcraft as a weapon in the political arena
Hans de Waardt
Deep Down in Spirituality: Efforts of seventeenth-century New Netherlanders to access God
Donna Merwick
Paraluther: Explaining an unexpected portrait of Paracelsus in Andreas Hartmannâs Curriculum vitae Lutheri (1601)
Leigh T. I. Penman
Part III: The (Un)natural World
âMaking feast of the prisonerâ: Roger Barlow, Hans Staden and ideas of New World cannibalism
Heather Dalton
Signs that Speak: Reporting the 1556 comet across French and German borders
Jennifer Spinks
Disorder in the Natural World: The perspectives of the sixteenth-century provincial convent
Susan Broomhall
De Profundis: Linear Leviathans in the Lowlands
Larry Silver
The Ferocious Dragon and the Docile Elephant: The unleashing of sin in Rembrandtâs Garden of Eden
Shelley Perlove
Part IV: Artefacts and Material Culture
Salience and the Snail: Liminality and incarnation in Francesco del Cossaâs Annunciation (c. 1470)
Patricia Simons
Luther Relics
Lyndal Roper
The Art of Making Memory: Epitaphs, tables and adages at Westminster Abbey
Peter Sherlock
The Popeâs Merchandise and the Jesuitsâ Trumpery: Catholic relics and Protestant polemic in post-Reformation England
Alexandra Walsham
Index
All interested in the history of religion, visual culture and supernatural beliefs in early modern Europe. It will particularly interest art historians as well as historians of religion