Religion, the supernatural and visual culture in early modern Europe : an album amicorum for Charles Zika

Folger bibliographic ID: 345479
Folger call number: BL65.C8 R45423 2015
Folger holdings ID: 496284

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

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Includes bibliographical references and index 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

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

Religion and culture Art and religion

honouree: Zika, Charles
editor: Spinks, Jennifer
editor: Eichberger, Dagmar