5. Christian Materiality between East and West: Notes of a Capuchin among the Christians of the Ottoman Empire

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. List of Illustrations 7
4. Abbreviations 11
5. Acknowledgements 13
6. Introduction 15
7. Part I – Meanings
8. 1. Wax versus Wood: The Material of Votive Offerings in Renaissance Italy 35
9. 2. The Substance of Divine Grace: Ex-votos and the Material of Paper in Early Modern Italy 51
10. 3. Powerful Objects in Powerful Places: Pilgrimage, Relics and Sacred Texts in Tibetan Buddhism 67
11. 4. Myer Myers: Silversmith in the Spanish-Portuguese Synagogue Ledger 85
12. Part II – Practices
13. 5. Christian Materiality between East and West: Notes of a Capuchin among the Christians of the Ottoman Empire 103
14. 6. The Materiality of Death in Early Modern Venice 119
15. 7. Living with the Virgin in the Colonial Andes: Images and Personal Devotion 137
16. 8. ‘Watching myself in the mirror, I saw ʿAlī in my eyes’: On Sufi Visual and Material Practice in the Balkans 151
17. Part III – Transformations
18. 9. Religious Materiality in the Kunstkammer of Rudolf II 177
19. 10. The Reformation of the Rosary Bead: Protestantism and the Perpetuation of the Amber Paternoster 193
20. 11. Magical Words: Arabic Amulets in Christian Spain 211
21. 12. Mesoamerican Idols, Spanish Medicine: Jade in the Collection of Philip II 229
22. Epilogue 247
23. Index 257