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Offering snapshots of mercantile devotion to saints in different
regions, this volume is the first to ask explicitly how merchants
invoked saints, and why. Despite medieval and modern stereotypes of
merchants as godless and avaricious, medieval traders were highly
devout - and rightly so. Overseas trade was dangerous, and
merchants' commercial activities were seen as jeopardizing their
souls. Merchants turned to saints for protection and succor,
identifying those most likely to preserve their goods, families,
reputations, and souls. The essays in this collection, written from
diverse angles, range across later medieval western Europe, from
Spain to Italy to England and the Hanseatic League. They offer a
multi-disciplinary examination of the ways that medieval merchants,
from petty traders to influential overseas wholesalers, deployed
the cults of saints. Three primary themes are addressed: danger,
community, and the unity of spiritual and cultural capital. Each of
these themes allows the international panel of contributors to
demonstrate the significant role of saints in mercantile life. This
book is unique in its exploration of saints and commerce, shedding
light on the everyday role religion played in medieval life. As
such, it will be of keen interest to scholars of religious history,
medieval history, art history, and literature.
This collection of essays considers artistic works that deal with
the body without a visual representation. It explores a range of
ways to represent this absence of the figure: from abject elements
such as bodily fluids and waste to surrogate forms including
reliquaries, manuscripts, and cloth. The collection focuses on two
eras, medieval and modern, when images referencing the absent body
have been far more prolific in the history of art. In medieval
times, works of art became direct references to the absent corporal
essence of a divine being, like Christ, or were used as devotional
aids. By contrast, in the modern era artists often reject
depictions of the physical body in order to distance themselves
from the history of the idealized human form. Through these essays,
it becomes apparent, even when the body is not visible in a work of
art, it is often still present tangentially. Though the essays in
this volume bridge two historical periods, they have coherent
thematic links dealing with abjection, embodiment, and
phenomenology. Whether figurative or abstract, sacred or secular,
medieval or modern, the body maintains a presence in these works
even when it is not at first apparent.
This collection of essays considers artistic works that deal with
the body without a visual representation. It explores a range of
ways to represent this absence of the figure: from abject elements
such as bodily fluids and waste to surrogate forms including
reliquaries, manuscripts, and cloth. The collection focuses on two
eras, medieval and modern, when images referencing the absent body
have been far more prolific in the history of art. In medieval
times, works of art became direct references to the absent corporal
essence of a divine being, like Christ, or were used as devotional
aids. By contrast, in the modern era artists often reject
depictions of the physical body in order to distance themselves
from the history of the idealized human form. Through these essays,
it becomes apparent, even when the body is not visible in a work of
art, it is often still present tangentially. Though the essays in
this volume bridge two historical periods, they have coherent
thematic links dealing with abjection, embodiment, and
phenomenology. Whether figurative or abstract, sacred or secular,
medieval or modern, the body maintains a presence in these works
even when it is not at first apparent.
Offering snapshots of mercantile devotion to saints in different
regions, this volume is the first to ask explicitly how merchants
invoked saints, and why. Despite medieval and modern stereotypes of
merchants as godless and avaricious, medieval traders were highly
devout - and rightly so. Overseas trade was dangerous, and
merchants' commercial activities were seen as jeopardizing their
souls. Merchants turned to saints for protection and succor,
identifying those most likely to preserve their goods, families,
reputations, and souls. The essays in this collection, written from
diverse angles, range across later medieval western Europe, from
Spain to Italy to England and the Hanseatic League. They offer a
multi-disciplinary examination of the ways that medieval merchants,
from petty traders to influential overseas wholesalers, deployed
the cults of saints. Three primary themes are addressed: danger,
community, and the unity of spiritual and cultural capital. Each of
these themes allows the international panel of contributors to
demonstrate the significant role of saints in mercantile life. This
book is unique in its exploration of saints and commerce, shedding
light on the everyday role religion played in medieval life. As
such, it will be of keen interest to scholars of religious history,
medieval history, art history, and literature.
Introduces the holiday and describes how Christians celebrate in
Mexico, Ethiopia, China, Germany, Lebanon, Sweden, Australia, and
Russia.
In an age of online education and educational philosophies like
"flipping the classroom," does the lecture have any role in today's
university? Drawing from the humanities and social sciences and
from a range of different types of schools, The College Lecture
Today makes the affirmative case for the lecture in the humanities
and social and political sciences. These essays explore how to
lecture without sacrificing theoretical knowledge.
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