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Images on a mission in early modern Kongo and Angola
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Images on a mission in early modern Kongo and Angola / Cécile Fromont.
ISBN
9780271092188
0271092181
Publication
University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2022]
Physical Description
xvii, 245 pages, 72 numbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), map ; 24 x 27 cm
Summary
"Presents and analyzes a set of unpublished images from seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Kongo and Angola created within the Capuchin Franciscan mission to the region"-- Provided by publisher.
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 27, 2022
Contents
"Nonsense" : Capuchin images of Kongo and Angola against Italian preconceptions
Practical guides to the mission : the Capuchin Central-African corpus
Images and devotion
Images as method
Images against idolatry
With "the consent of the people, and the secular arm of the prince"
Penned by encounter : Capuchins, Central Africans, and the making of a cross-cultural discourse.
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