Ex voto : votive giving across cultures /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: EBSCOhost
Other Authors: Weinryb, Ittai (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York City : Bard Graduate Center, 2016.
Series:Bard Graduate Center cultural histories of the material world.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Ex-voto as material culture / Ittai Weinryb
  • Fractured narratives: writing the biography of a votive offering / Jessica Hughes
  • Between the body and the divine: healing votives from classical and Hellenistic Greece / Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis
  • Italian ex-votos and "pro-anima" images in the late Middle Ages / Michele Bacci
  • Renaissance perspectives on classica antique votive practices / Megan Holmes
  • Humble offerings: votive panel paintings in Renaissance Italy / Fredrike Jacobs
  • Donated before the gods: popular display of Edo-period Ema tables / Hilary K. Snow
  • Presence and narrative in the ex-votos of New Spain / Clara Bargellini
  • Vows on water: ship ex-votos as things, metaphors, and mediators of communality / Hannah Baader
  • Nazr necessities: votive practices and objects in Iranian Muharram ceremonies / Christiane Gruber
  • Procreative giving: votive wombs and the study of ex-votos / Ittai Weinryb.