Sacrifice and Conversion in the Early Modern Atlantic World

When Europeans came to the American continent in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, they were confronted with what they perceived as sacrificial practices. Sacrifice and Conversion in the Early Modern Atlantic World examines the encounter between European and American conceptions of sacrifice expressed in texts, music, rituals, and images.

Info autore

Maria Berbara is Professor of Art History at the State University of Rio de Janeiro. She received her PhD from the University of Hamburg and specializes in Italian and Iberian art produced between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries, as well as in cultural history, early modern globalism, and intellectual interchange in the Atlantic world.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Maria Berbara
• Con la collaborazione di: Maria Berbara (Editore), Berbara Maria (Editore)
• Editore: Harvard University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 30.04.2022
• EAN: 9780674278806
• ISBN: 978-0-674-27880-6
• Pagine: 378
• Serie: I Tatti Research Series
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Arte > Storia dell'arte; Latin America, Europe, ART / Subjects & Themes / Religious, HISTORY / Latin America / General, History of Art, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Renaissance art, Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America, Renaissance style, History of the Americas, Relating to religious groups, European history: Renaissance, HISTORY / Europe / Renaissance, Religious subjects depicted in art, Religious and ceremonial art, ART / History / European / Renaissance