Of Dancing Cardinals and Mestizo Madonnas: Reconfiguring the History of Roman Catholicism in the Early Modern Period
About: This article is published in Journal of Early Modern History.The article was published on 2004-01-01. It has received 59 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Early modern period.
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12 Dec 2019TL;DR: The untold story of how black saints and the slaves who venerated them transformed the early modern church was explored by Rowe as discussed by the authors, who provided new ways of thinking about blackness, holiness, and cultural authority.
Abstract: From the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, Spanish and Portuguese monarchs launched global campaigns for territory and trade. This process spurred two efforts that reshaped the world: missions to spread Christianity to the four corners of the globe, and the horrors of the transatlantic slave trade. These efforts joined in unexpected ways to give rise to black saints. Erin Kathleen Rowe presents the untold story of how black saints - and the slaves who venerated them - transformed the early modern church. By exploring race, the Atlantic slave trade, and global Christianity, she provides new ways of thinking about blackness, holiness, and cultural authority. Rowe transforms our understanding of global devotional patterns and their effects on early modern societies by looking at previously unstudied sculptures and paintings of black saints, examining the impact of black lay communities, and analysing controversies unfolding in the church about race, moral potential, enslavement, and salvation.
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01 Jan 2019
TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider music as something primarily experienced by people in their daily lives, whether as musicians or listeners, and as something that happened in particular locations, and different intellectual and ideological contexts, rather than as a story of genres, individual counties, and composers and their works.
Abstract: Part of the seminal Cambridge History of Music series, this volume departs from standard histories of early modern Western music in two important ways. First, it considers music as something primarily experienced by people in their daily lives, whether as musicians or listeners, and as something that happened in particular locations, and different intellectual and ideological contexts, rather than as a story of genres, individual counties, and composers and their works. Second, by constraining discussion within the limits of a 100-year timespan, the music culture of the sixteenth century is freed from its conventional (and tenuous) absorption within the abstraction of 'the Renaissance', and is understood in terms of recent developments in the broader narrative of this turbulent period of European history. Both an original take on a well-known period in early music and a key work of reference for scholars, this volume makes an important contribution to the history of music.
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24 Jan 2019
TL;DR: In this article, the philosophy of music in the late Renaissance period is discussed, focusing on the contemporary idea of music as a magical symbol which has the power to convey ideas from the Divine Mind to earthly ears.
Abstract: This chapter discusses the philosophy of music in the late Renaissance period, focussing on the contemporary idea of music as a magical symbol which has the power to convey ideas from the Divine Mind to earthly ears It includes an analysis of Orlando Lassus' 'Prophetiae Sybillarum' as an example of such symbolism, designed to awaken or invoke an altered state of awareness such as that available to the Sybils as prophetesses of the ancient world
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