Religious Materiality in the Early Modern World

List of colour plates List of figures Notes on contributors Acknowledgements Introduction - Editors Part I - Meanings 1. Wax versus wood: the material of votive offerings in Renaissance Italy - Mary Laven 2. The substance of divine grace: Ex-votos and the material of paper in early modern Italy - Maria Alessandra Chessa 3. Powerful objects in powerful places: pilgrimage, relics and sacred texts in Tibetan Buddhism - Hildegard Diemberger 4. Myer Myers: Silversmith in the Spanish-Portuguese Synagogue Ledger - Vivian B. Mann Part II - Practices 5. Christian materiality between East and West: Notes of a Capuchin among the Christians of the Ottoman Empire - John-Paul Ghobrial 6. The materiality of death in early modern Venice - Alexandra Bamji 7. Living with the Virgin in the Colonial Andes: Images and personal devotion - Gabriela Ramos 8. 'Watching myself in the mirror, I saw 'Ali in my eyes': On Sufi visual and material practice in the Balkans - Sara Kuehn Part III - Transformations 9. Religious materiality in the Kunstkammer of Rudolf II - Suzanna Ivanic 10. The Reformation of the rosary bead: Protestantism and the perpetuation of the Amber Pater Noster - Rachel King 11. Magical words: Arabic amulets in Christian Spain - Abigail Krasner Balbale 12. Mesoamerican idols, Spanish medicine: Jade in the collection of Philip II - Kate E. Holohan Epilogue - Caroline Walker Bynum Index