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Book The Mystery of the Rosary

Download or read book The Mystery of the Rosary written by Nathan Mitchell and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2012-04 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rosary has been nearly ubiquitous among Roman Catholics since its first appearance in Europe five centuries ago. Why has this particular devotional object been so resilient, especially in the face of Catholicism's reinvention in the Early Modern, or "Counter-Reformation," Era? Nathan D. Mitchell argues in lyric prose that to understand the rosary's adaptability, it is essential to consider the changes Catholicism itself began to experience in the aftermath of the Reformation. Unlike many other scholars of this period, Mitchell argues that after the Reformation Catholicism actually became less retrenched and more open to change. This innovation was especially evident in the sometimes "subversive" visual representations of sacred subjects and in new ways of perceiving the relation between Catholic devotion and the liturgy's ritual symbols. The rosary played a crucial role not only in how Catholics gave flesh to their faith, but in new ways of constructing their personal and collective identity. Ultimately, Mitchell employs the history of the rosary as a lens through which to better understand early modern Catholic history.

Book The Mystical Science of the Soul

Download or read book The Mystical Science of the Soul written by Jessica A. Boon and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ultimately, I propose that considering internalization as embodiment is a critical methodological shift in understanding mystical methods in general, and especially for probing recollection mysticism in depth. The inner man as opposed to the outer man is a Pauline and Lutheran commonplace that is too frequently taken out of context, leading historians of the Renaissance in general, and of Spanish Renaissance religion in particular, to value references to internal (or mental) methods of spirituality as an improvement over external (or bodily) rituals. This book takes its cue from the recent 'cognitive turn' in medieval studies that complicates studies of the body in religion by focusing on the embodied aspects of cognition, claiming a continuum between body and soul rather than a hierarchy. I argue that medieval theories of cognition made the divorce of the body from the soul impossible for a Galenic doctor, even one who spoke of the body and the world with contempt, and by implication impossible for his Castilian audience. Without serious consideration of Laredo's reliance on an embodied soul rather than on a body-soul dualism, therefore, no proper assessment of the unitive stage of recogimiento ... can be made."--Introduction, p. 6-7.

Book Building Yanhuitlan

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  • Author : Alessia Frassani
  • Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
  • Release : 2017-10-12
  • ISBN : 080616056X
  • Pages : 245 pages

Download or read book Building Yanhuitlan written by Alessia Frassani and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2017-10-12 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through years of fieldwork in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico, art historian and archaeologist Alessia Frassani formulated a compelling question: How did Mesoamerican society maintain its distinctive cultural heritage despite colonization by the Spanish? In Building Yanhuitlan, she focuses on an imposing structure—a sixteenth-century Dominican monastery complex in the village of Yanhuitlan. For centuries, the buildings have served a central role in the village landscape and the lives of its people. Ostensibly, there is nothing indigenous about the complex or the artwork inside. So how does such a place fit within the Mixteca, where Frassani acknowledges a continuity of indigenous culture in the towns, plazas, markets, churches, and rural surroundings? To understand the monastery complex—and Mesoamerican cultural heritage in the wake of conquest—Frassani calls for a shifting definition of indigenous identity, one that acknowledges the ways indigenous peoples actively took part in the development of post-conquest Mesoamerican culture. Frassani relates the history of Yanhuitlan by examining the rich store of art and architecture in the town’s church and convent, bolstering her account with more than 100 color and black-and-white illustrations. She presents the first two centuries of the church complex’s construction works, maintenance, and decorations as the product of cultural, political, and economic negotiation between Mixtec caciques, Spanish encomenderos, and Dominican friars. The author then ties the village’s present-day religious celebrations to the colonial past, and traces the cult of specific images through these celebrations’ history. Cultural artifacts, Frassani demonstrates, do not need pre-Hispanic origins to be considered genuinely Mesoamerican—the processes attached to their appropriation are more meaningful than their having any pre-Hispanic past. Based on original and unpublished documents and punctuated with stunning photography, Building Yanhuitlan combines archival and ethnographic work with visual analysis to make an innovative statement regarding artistic forms and to tell the story of a remarkable community.

Book A List of Additions Made to the Collections  in the British Museum in the Years 1831 1835

Download or read book A List of Additions Made to the Collections in the British Museum in the Years 1831 1835 written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-09-24 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1837.

Book British Museum Catalogue of printed Books

Download or read book British Museum Catalogue of printed Books written by and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 910 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Journal of Ecclesiastical History

Download or read book The Journal of Ecclesiastical History written by Clifford William Dugmore and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Analecta Cartusiana

Download or read book Analecta Cartusiana written by and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of Books Printed in the XVth Century Now in the British Museum

Download or read book Catalogue of Books Printed in the XVth Century Now in the British Museum written by British Museum. Department of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book General Catalogue of Printed Books

Download or read book General Catalogue of Printed Books written by British Museum. Department of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

Download or read book The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Articles on all aspects of anthropology.

Book General catalogue of printed books

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Book Dom Augustine Baker s Translation of the  Relation  of Fr  Balthasar Alvarez

Download or read book Dom Augustine Baker s Translation of the Relation of Fr Balthasar Alvarez written by John P. H. Clark and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Die Kart  user und die K  nste ihrer Zeit

Download or read book Die Kart user und die K nste ihrer Zeit written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book International Bibliography of Book Reviews of Scholarly Literature Chiefly in the Fields of Arts and Humanities and the Social Sciences

Download or read book International Bibliography of Book Reviews of Scholarly Literature Chiefly in the Fields of Arts and Humanities and the Social Sciences written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 890 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Contemplaciones sobre el Rosario de Nuestra Se  ora historiadas

Download or read book Contemplaciones sobre el Rosario de Nuestra Se ora historiadas written by Gaspar Gorricio de Novara and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: