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Renaissance Papers 2022

Renaissance Papers 2022

Risvold, Ward J.
Given, William
Pearce, Jim

Hardcover

Series: Renaissance Papers, Book 27

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 1640141642
ISBN13: 9781640141643
Publisher: Camden House (NY)
Published: Nov 28 2023
Pages: 140
Weight: 0.72
Height: 0.44 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Renaissance Papers collects the best scholarly essays submitted each year to the Southeastern Renaissance Conference. The theme of this year's volume is sacred places, secular spaces. It begins with a who is it mystery, examining two portraits by Raphael that embody the sacred and the profane, respectively. The next essay engages both the sacred and pictorial innovationsin Holbein's predella The Dead Christ; while the following one views the sacred through the critical lens of race, arguing that Northern European churchmen normalized views on race by strategically placing racialized artifacts in their churches. The scene then shifts to 16th century Venice, where the Greek community contended with local authorities over the right to establish a sacred site for interring their dead. The next two essays swing the pendulum toward the secular: an essay on ecocriticism suggests that the early modern period expelled the sacred from nature and presents a Rabelaisian antidote, while an essay on Spenser's The Faerie Queene presents it as a blueprint for colonization. The volume concludes with

Contributors: Julie Fox-Horton, Lorenz A. Hindrichsen, Heather Hirschfeld, Elizabeth Lisot-Nelson, Jesse Russell, Victor Velázquez, John N. Wall, Jennifer Wu.

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