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Record Nr.

UNINA9910798547103321

Titolo

Ex voto : votive giving across cultures / / Ittai Weinryb, editor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, [New York] : , : Bard Graduate Center, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-941792-06-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (322 p.)

Collana

Cultural Histories of the Material World

Disciplina

203/.7

Soggetti

Votive offerings

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Series Editor's Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Ex-Voto as Material Culture - Ittai Weinryb; One. Fractured Narratives: Writing the Biography of a Votive Offering - Jessica Hughes; Two. Between the Body and the Divine: Healing Votives from Classical and Hellenistic Greece - Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis; Three. Italian Ex-Votos and "Pro-Anima" Images in the Late Middle Ages - Michele Bacci; Four. Renaissance Perspectives on Classical Antique Votive Practices - Megan Holmes; Five. Humble Offerings: Votive Panel Paintings in Renaissance Italy - Fredrika Jacobs

Six. Donated before the Gods: Popular Display of Edo-Period Ema Tablets - Hilary K. SnowSeven. Presence and Narrative in the Ex-Votos of New Spain - Clara Bargellini; Eight. Vows on Water: Ship Ex-Votos as Things, Metaphors, and Mediators of Communality - Hannah Baader; Nine. Nazr Necessities: Votive Practices and Objects in Iranian Muharram Ceremonies - Christiane Gruber; Ten. Procreative Giving: Votive Wombs and the Study of Ex-Votos - Ittai Weinryb; Contributors; Index