Renaissance Papers 2022 (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Pearce, James M; Risvold, Ward J.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Renaissance Papers collects the best scholarly essays submitted each year to the Southeastern Renaissance Conference. The theme of this year's volume is "sacred places, secular spaces." It begins with a "who is it" mystery, examining two portraits by Raphael that embody the sacred and the profane, respectively. The next essay engages both the sacred and pictorial innovationsin Holbein's predella The Dead Christ; while the following one views the sacred through the critical lens of race, arguing that Northern European churchmen normalized views on race by strategically placing racialized artifacts in their churches. The scene then shifts to 16th century Venice, where the Greek community contended with local authorities over the right to establish a sacred site for interring their dead. The next two essays swing the pendulum toward the secular: an essay on ecocriticism suggests that the early modern period expelled the sacred from nature and presents a Rabelaisian antidote, while an essay on Spenser's The Faerie Queene presents it as a blueprint for colonization. The volume concludes with

Contributors: Julie Fox-Horton, Lorenz A. Hindrichsen, Heather Hirschfeld, Elizabeth Lisot-Nelson, Jesse Russell, Victor Velázquez, John N. Wall, Jennifer Wu.
The journal is edited by Jim Pearce of North Carolina Central University and Ward Risvold of Georgia College and State University.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Abingdon Press
• Seitenzahl: 140
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. November 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781805430230
• Artikelnr.: 69067886

Autorenporträt

Edited by James Pearce and Ward Risvold

Inhaltsangabe

The Space of Hell, the Place of Print in Early Modern London Heather
Hirschfeld The Jewish Bride and Oriental Concubine: Raphael's Donna Velata
and La Fornarina Elizabeth Lisot-Nelson Into the Abyss: Hans Holbein the
Younger's Dead Christ Jennifer Wu Racialized Sacred Spaces: Narratives of
Exclusion and Inclusion in Northern European Churches Lorenz A. Hindrichsen
Place for Our Dead: Sacred Space and the Greek Community in Early Modern
Venice Julie Fox-Horton Pantagruelion, Debt and Ecology: Ecocriticism and
Early Modern French Literature in Conversation Victor Velázquez Race before
Race in Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene Jesse Russell Materializing Lost
Time and Space: Implications for a Transformed Scholarly Agenda John N.
Wall