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Objects of Devotion: Religion and Its Instruments in Early Modern Europe

Objects of Devotion: Religion and Its Instruments in Early Modern Europe

Matt

Hardcover

Series: Early Modern Cultural Studies, Book 5

General Art

PREORDER - Expected ship date October 31, 2026

ISBN10: 2503584373
ISBN13: 9782503584379
Publisher: Brepols Publishers
Published: Oct 31 2026
Pages: 228
Language: English
Historians of the late medieval and early modern period have created an antithesis between spiritual (inward) and physical (outward) devotion, branding the latter as superficial, ritualistic and mechanistic. More generally, from the first Protestant historians to Max Weber and his followers, the Reformation has come to be represented as the classic watershed between material, magical devotion and spiritual, rational belief. In a similar vein, art historians have opposed the notion of the medieval cult image, material and functional, to the early modern work of art, subject to aesthetic regard. Yet, does it make sense to distinguish between late medieval and early modern religious culture, given the fact that the definitions and boundaries of these periods are notoriously problematic and considerably overlap? This volume shows how in early modern Europe religious ideas and practice were realized through interaction with objects that were both functional and aesthetic and how the presence of sculptures, paintings, books, and church furniture--their visibility, tactility, and materiality--helped form attitudes toward devotion, sacred history, and salvation.

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