Eloquent Images: Evangelisation, Conversion and Propaganda in the Global World of the Early Modern Period - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9462703272 ISBN 13: 9789462703278

Verlag: Leuven University Press, 2022

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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 Christianised, from China to Iberia. Combining the contribution of historians and art historians, the authors highlight the points of intercultural encounter and tension around preaching, catechesis, devotional practices and the propagandistic use of images.

Through its aesthetic and social study of the image, and by examining the inner and outer borders of Europe and the mission lands, Eloquent Images contributes significantly to the history of evangelisation, one of the major dynamics of the first European globalisation.

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Giuseppe Capriotti is an early modern art historian at the University of Macerata. Pierre-Antoine Fabre is historian of modern Catholicism and Evangelization at the Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris. Sabina Pavone is professor of early modern history and global history at the University of Macerata.

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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 Christianised, from China to Iberia. Combining the contribution of historians and art historians, the authors highlight the points of intercultural encounter and tension around preaching, catechesis, devotional practices, and the propagandistic use of images.

Through its aesthetic and social study of the image, and by examining the inner and outer borders of Europe and the mission lands, Eloquent Images contributes significantly to the history of evangelisation, one of the major dynamics of the first European globalisation.

Giuseppe Capriotti is professor in early modern art history at the University of Macerata.
Pierre-Antoine Fabre is professor at the Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris, and studies modern Catholicism and evangelization.
Sabina Pavone is professor of early modern history and global history at the University of Macerata.

Overcoming the traditional incommunicability between historians and art historians, the authors of the essays in the book work together by "questioning" the images involved in religious propaganda from a global viewpoint. In doing so, they offer new insights from an empirical perspective.Ivana Čapeta Rakić, University of Split

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Leuven University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2022
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 9462703272
• ISBN 13: 9789462703278
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 348
• Herausgeber: Capriotti Giuseppe, Fabre Pierre-Antoine, Pavone Sabina
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: Nicht verfügbar