The texture of images : the relic book in late-medieval religiosity and early modern aesthetics

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    • Cárdenas, Livia
    • Simon, Anne

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The texture of images : the relic book in late-medieval religiosity and early modern aesthetics

by Livia Cárdenas ; translated by Anne Simon

(Library of the written word, v. 85 . The handpress world ; v. 66)

Brill, c2021

  • : hardback

Other Title

Die Textur des Bildes : das Heiltumsbuch im Kontext religiöser Medialität des Spätmittelalters

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Content Type: text (rdacontent), Media Type: unmediated (rdamedia), Carrier Type: volume (rdacarrier)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [499]-541) and index

Contents of Works

  • Part 1. The diversification of the genre
  • Mimesis as politics
  • Competition between cities and printers
  • Speculating on similarity
  • Familiar means-new piety
  • Aesthetic enhancement
  • The relic book as stage mask : the media staging of social climbing and the accumulation of salvation
  • Troy, Rome, Halle : history and genealogy
  • Part 2. Synthesis of a genre
  • The mediality of the relic book
  • The texture of the book

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