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Arts, Portraits and Representation in the Reformation Era
The role played by artistic, literary, historical and theological representations in the establishment of the European Reformation has attracted scholarly attention over the years. While they were generally regarded as a significant means of conveying the evangelical message, particularly in a society with a low average literacy rate, this scholarly consensus was then seriously challenged by objecting that their meaning must have remained opaque to those who couldn't read and interpret their sometimes multilayered imagery and their verbal and figurative messages. This volume, which publishes some of the papers delivered at the Fourth Reformation Research Consortium Conference held in Bologna...
Humanistica Lovaniensia
As well as presenting articles on Neo-Latin topics, the annual journal Humanistica Lovaniensia is a major source for critical editions of Neo-Latin texts with translations and commentaries. Please visit www.lup.be for the full table of contents.
Painting and Devotion in Golden Age Iberia
It is the first monograph in English on Luis de Morales since the 1960s, which is essential for those who do not read Spanish because most of the literature on Morales is in Spanish It provides an extended consideration of the relationship between Morales’ paintings and the devotional practices of his times, using devotional writing aimed at a lay readership and sermons It highlights the importance of Portuguese cultural influences on his work and notes the significance of his work in Portugal as an influence on Portuguese painters and style.
Eloquent Images
The Christian image in the process of modern globalisation Drawing on original research covering different periods and spaces, this book sets out to appreciate the specific place of images in the history of evangelisation in the long modern period. How can we reconceptualise the functions of the visual mediation of the gospel message, both in terms of the production and reception of this message and in terms of its effective mediators, artists, religious, and cultural ambassadors? The contributions in this book offer multiple geographical and historical insights regarding the circulation of the image on the global scale of the Christianised world or the world in the process of being Christia...
The Arts of EncounterThe Arts of Encounter
Images of crosses, the Virgin Mary, and Christ, among other devotional objects, pervaded nearly every aspect of public and private life in early modern Spain, but they were also a point of contention between Christian and Muslim cultures. Writers of narrative fiction, theatre, and poetry were attuned to these debates, and religious imagery played an important role in how early modern writers chose to portray relations between Christians and Muslims. Drawing on a wide variety of literary genres as well as other textual and visual sources – including historical chronicles, travel memoirs, captives’ testimonies, and paintings – Catherine Infante traces the references to religious visual c...
The Twelve Years Truce (1609)
The Twelve Years Truce of 9 April 1609 made a temporary end to the hostilities between Spain and the Northern Netherlands that had lasted for over four decades. The Truce signified a crucial step in the recognition of the Republic of the Northern Netherlands as a sovereign power. As the direct source of inspiration for the 1648 Peace of Munster the Truce is a crucial text in the formation of the early modern law of nations. As few other texts, it reflects the radical changes to the laws of war and peace from around 1600. The Twelve Years Truce offers a collection of essays by leading specialists on the diplomatic and legal history of the Antwerp Truce of 1609. The first part covers the negotiation process leading up to the Truce. The second part collects essays on the consequences of the Truce on the state of war. In the third part, the consequences of the Truce for the sovereignty of the Northern and Southern Netherlands as well as it wider significance for the changing laws of war and peace of the age are scrutinised.
The International Emblem
The emblem, a Renaissance literary genre which combined text and image, conveyed erudition, admonishment, propaganda, and piety with unparalleled concision and economy. It arose out of humanist circles in the early sixteenth century and quickly became established as a staple tool in religious, political, and social discourses across the major European languages. In recent years the emblem has come to be regarded by scholars working in all areas of the humanities and cultural studies as an interdisciplinary matrix of extraordinary utility in gaining insights into the mentalities and preoccupations of the early modern era. Within its apparently slender frame, the emblem embraces questions of f...
Vidas de artistas y otras narrativas biográficas
Vidas de artistas y otras narrativas biográficas compila dieciocho estudios de investigadores nacionales e internacionales que, teniendo como eje la conmemoración del quinto centenario del nacimiento del arquitecto, pintor y tratadista Giorgio Vasari, dan a la narrativa biográfica el valor de instrumento de conocimiento en el campo de la historia del arte. Los ejemplos analizados, que abarcan desde el Renacimiento hasta el siglo xx, muestran hasta qué punto la biografía, a pesar de que en ocasiones anula la perspectiva requerida por las investigaciones históricas, resulta fundamental para acercarse a la personalidad del artista como individuo en constante interrelación con su entorno social y cultural, el cual por un lado lo condiciona y al cual, por otro, influye con su creatividad.
La historia imaginada
En la Europa del Antiguo Régimen, en su mayor parte iletrada, las imágenes constituyeron un medio de comunicación de la máxima importancia. Esta realidad resultó muy relevante en el campo de la transmisión de mensajes políticos, basada en la adhesión afectiva más que en la argumentación racional. Gobernantes y oponentes al poder en todos los ámbitos produjeron una cantidad de imágenes en apoyo de sus posiciones como no se había visto nunca antes en la historia del continente. Por sus mismas características, las imágenes constituyeron un medio de comunicación que trascendía las fronteras políticas y daba lugar a mensajes inteligibles en tradiciones culturales diversas. Este ...
Latin Political Propaganda in the War of the Spanish Succession and Its Aftermath, 1700-1740
"This books offers the first comprehensive study of the central role played by the Latin language to celebrate or undermine political power during the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1715). Waged as much on the printed page as on the battlefield, this worldwide conflict gave rise to an astonishing variety of Latin writing across the Continent. Alejandro Coroleu provides close examination of the literary devices of these texts and shows how imitation of models and figures from classical antiquity was at the heart of the authors' highly refined verse and prose technique"--
