This book explores the making of saints’ cults in the early modern world from an interdisciplinary perspective, considering the entangled roles of materiality and globalization processes. It brings together work across diverse media, objects, and materials as well as communities, cultures, and geographies to reframe a more synoptic, materials-centric, and comparative history of the making and remaking of saints’ cults, with a special focus on the long Counter-Reformation. The contributions engage with dynamics of local and universal and draw attention to the vital role of textual, visual, and material hagiographies in the creation and promotion of saints’ and would-be saints’ cults. The book fosters novel conceptualizations and cross-pollination of ideas across traditions, regions, and disciplines and expands hagiography’s horizons by reconsidering canonical saintly figures and reframing lesser-known cults of saints and would-be saints.
The book will be of interest to scholars of religious and early modern history as well as art history and visual and material studies.
Edited by:
Ruth Sargent Noyes Imprint: Routledge Country of Publication: United Kingdom Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
ISBN:9781032358475 ISBN 10: 1032358475 Series:Sanctity in Global Perspective Pages: 216 Publication Date:29 November 2024 Audience:
College/higher education
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Further / Higher Education
Format:Hardback Publisher's Status: Forthcoming
Ruth Sargent Noyes is a visiting lecturer at the Estonian Academy of Arts in Tallinn, Estonia.
