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2 Early Modern History Architecture and Hagiography in the Ottoman Empire The Politics of Bektashi Shrines in the Classical Age Zeynep Yürekli, University of Oxford, UK BIrMINGHAM BYZANTINE AND OTTOMAN STUDIES The shrine complexes examined in this book were established as independent institutions in medieval Anatolia and became the primary centres of the Bektashi order of dervishes in the classical Ottoman period. Based on a thorough examination of the buildings, their inscriptions, archival documents and Bektashi hagiographies, this book uncovers the particular political significance of Bektashi shrines in the Ottoman imperial age, and thus provides a fresh and comprehensive account of the formative process of the Bektashi network. Contents: Introduction: legends and shrines; The Bektashis, their shrines and the Ottomans; The hagiographic framework; The remodelling of the shrines; Architecture and meaning; Epilogue; Appendices; Bibliography; Index. Includes 57 b&w illustrations November 2012 222 pages Hardback 978-1-4094-1106-2 $119.95 ebook PDF 978-1-4094-1107-9 ebook ePUB 978-1-4094-8399-1 www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781409411062 The Art of religion Sforza Pallavicino and Art Theory in Bernini’s rome Maarten Delbeke, Ghent University, Belgium and University of Leiden, The Netherlands HISTOrIES OF VISION “A long-awaited book that sets new standards in the understudied history of baroque art theory.” —Frank Fehrenbach, Harvard University Bernini and Pallavicino, the artist and the Jesuit cardinal, are closely related figures at the papal courts of Urban VIII and Alexander VII, at which Bernini was the principal artist. The analysis of Pallavicino’s writings offers a new perspective on Bernini’s art and artistry and allow us to understand the visual arts in papal rome as a “making manifest” of the fundamental truths of faith. Contents: Preface; Introduction: art theory in Bernini’s rome; Sforza Pallavicino and roman baroque; The pope, the bust, the sculptor and the fly; Art as revelation: the revelation of art; The image of the pope; The composite work; Sacred art; Conclusion: Sforza Pallavicino and art theory in Bernini’s rome; Bibliography; Index. Includes 20 b&w illustrations August 2012 258 pages Hardback 978-0-7546-3485-0 $114.95 ebook PDF 978-1-4094-5884-5 ebook ePUB 978-1-4094-5885-2 www.ashgate.com/isbn/9780754634850 Early Modern History 2013 The Ashgate research Companion to the Counter-reformation Edited by Alexandra Bamji, University of Leeds, UK, Geert H. Janssen, University of Oxford, UK and Mary Laven, University of Cambridge, UK “The Ashgate research Companion to the Counterreformation is a valuable handbook for all scholars and students of early modern Catholicism. Leading scholars take on a wide variety of topics and relate important directions in current research, while the work as a whole expands the concept of Counter- Reformation. Comprehensive in scope, the volume focuses on the varieties of religious experience and highlights the complexities of Catholic identities during a dynamic age. This is a work that makes sense of recent scholarship and sends it in new directions.” —Charles H. Parker, Saint Louis University The Ashgate Research Companion to the Counter- Reformation presents a comprehensive examination of recent scholarship on early modern Catholicism in its many guises. It examines how the Tridentine reforms inspired conflict and conversion, and evaluates lives and identities, spirituality, culture and religious change. This wide-ranging and original research guide is a unique resource for scholars and students of European and transnational history. Contents: Introduction, Mary Laven. Part I: ConflICt, CoexIstenCe and ConversIon: Tridentine Catholicism, Simon Ditchfield; Confessionalization, Ute Lotz-Heumann; religious coexistence, Keith Luria; The exile experience, Geert H. Janssen; The Inquisition, Nicholas S. Davidson; Catholic pamphleteering, Andrew Pettegree; Catholic missions to Asia, Tara Alberts; Catholic missions to the Americas, Karin Velez. Part II: CatholIC lIves and devotIonal IdentItIes: Being a Catholic in early modern Europe, Judith Pollmann; The Catholic life-cycle, Alexandra Bamji; The sacred landscape, Alexandra Walsham; Sanctity, Clare Copeland; The Counter-reformation of the senses, Wietse de Boer; Lay spirituality, Nicholas Terpstra; Catholic piety and community, Simone Laqua-O’Donnell. Part III: Ideas and Cultural PraCtICes: Intellectual culture, Michael Edwards; Science and the Counterreformation, Nick Wilding; Music and the Counterreformation, Noel O’Regan; Counter-reformation drama, Paul Shore; Art and the Counter-reformation, Andrea Lepage; Material culture, Silvia Evangelisti. Part Iv: relIgIous Change: Catholic reformations: a medieval perspective, John H. Arnold; The globalization of reform, Karen Melvin; Legacies of the Counter-reformation and the origins of modern Catholicism, Mary Laven; Index. Includes 21 b&w illustrations and 3 maps March 2013 496 pages Hardback 978-1-4094-2373-7 $149.95 ebook PDF 978-1-4094-2374-4 ebook ePUB 978-1-4094-7318-3 www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781409423737 AsHgATe OriginAl referenCe The Ashgate research Companion to Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe Edited by Allyson Poska, University of Mary Washington, Jane Couchman, York University and Katherine A. McIver, University of Alabama “This is an excellent introduction to a fast-moving field. Uniting theoretical and practical approaches, a series of essays ranges across the mind, body and spirit of women in early modern Europe, illuminating differences of culture, religion, age and status. It provides an essential handbook for researchers in the field and a wonderful introduction to the range of women’s experience.” —Laura Gowing, King’s College London, UK This Ashgate Research Companion presents an authoritative review of the current research on women and gender in early modern Europe from a multi-disciplinary perspective. The authors examine women’s lives, ideologies of gender and the differences between ideology and reality through the recent research across many disciplines, including history, literary studies, art history, musicology, history of science and medicine, and religious studies. Contents: Introduction, Allyson M. Poska, Jane Couchman and Katherine A. McIver. seCtIon 1: relIgIon: The permeable cloister, Elizabeth A. Lehfeldt; Literature by women religious in early modern Catholic Europe and the New world, Alison Weber; Convent creativity, Marilynn Dunn; Convent music: an examination, Kimberlyn Montford; Lay patronage and religious art, Catherine E. King; Female religious communities beyond the convent, Susan E. Dinan; Protestant movements, Merry Wiesner-Hanks; Protestant women’s voices, Jane Couchman. seCtIon 2: embodIed lIves: Maternity, Lianne McTavish; Upending patriarchy: rethinking marriage and family in early modern Europe, Allyson M. Poska; The economics and politics of marriage, Jutta Gisela Sperling; Before the law, Lyndan Warner; Permanent impermanence: continuity and rupture early modern sexuality studies, Katherine Crawford; Women and work, Janine Lanza; Old women in early modern Europe: age as an analytical category, Lynn A. Botelho; Women on the margins, Elizabeth S. Cohen; Women and political power in early modern Europe, Carole Levin and Alicia Meyer. seCtIon 3: Cultural ProduCtIon: The Querelle des femmes, Julie D. Campbell; Intellectual women in early modern Europe, Diana Robin; Women in science and medicine, 1400–1800, Alisha Rankin; Early modern women artists, Sheila ffolliott; Beyond Isabella and beyond: secular women patrons of art in early modern Europe, Sheryl E. Reiss; Material culture: consumption, collecting and domestic goods, Katherine A. McIver; Images of women, Andrea Pearson; Women, gender, and music, Linda Phyllis Austern; Index. Includes 24 b&w illustrations April 2013 576 pages Hardback 978-1-4094-1817-7 $149.95 ebook PDF 978-1-4094-1818-4 ebook ePUB 978-1-4094-7427-2 www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781409418177 AsHgATe OriginAl referenCe Ashgate Research Companions Ashgate Companions offer a comprehensive and authoritative state-of-the-art review of current research in a particular area. 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Aspects of Book Culture in Early Modern England Tom A. Birrell and Jos Blom, both at radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands VArIOrUM COLLECTED STUDIES SErIES: CS1025 Thomas Anthony Birrell (1924–2011) was a man of many parts but first and foremost he was a bibliographer and a book historian. The present collection contains fifteen of his book-historical articles, two reviews and one published version of a lecture for the illustrious “Association Internationale de Bibliophilie.” Contents: Editorial preface. Part I: the sIgnIfICanCe of book auCtIons: John Dryden’s purchase at two book auctions; Books and buyers in 17th century English auction sales; John Locke at three English book auctions. Part II: book ColleCtors and readIng habIts: The reconstruction of the library of Isaac Casaubon; The printed books of Dame Margaret Nicollson; reading as pastime: the place of light literature in some gentlemen’s libraries of the 17th century; review of P.S. Morrish, Bibliotheca Higgsiana (Oxford, 1990); review of r.J. Fehrenbach and E. Leedham-Green, Private Libraries in Renaissance England (Binghampton/New York, 1992/3); Mary of Nemmegen: provenance, context, genre; The library of Sir Edward Sherburne. Part III: PublIshers and theIr InfluenCe: The influence of 17th century publishers on the presentation of English literature; The making of a bookseller: the journals of John Petheram; The circle of John Gage; ‘A sentimental journey’ through Holland and Flanders by John Gage. Part Iv: bIblIograPhers and lIbrarIes: Anthony Wood, John Bagford and Thomas Hearne as bibliographers; Some rare Scottish books in the Old royal Library; The British library: custodian of the unique; The BM duplicate sales 1769–1832; Index. Includes 20 b&w illustrations April 2013 280 pages Hardback 978-1-4094-5569-1 $165.00 www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781409455691 The Career of Cardinal Giovanni Morone (1509–1580) Between Council and Inquisition Adam Patrick robinson Providing a re-assessment of Giovanni Morone (1509–1580) this book addresses the key moments in the cardinal’s career. Focusing particularly on the period after his release from charges of heresy and his subsequent role as principal legate to the Council of Trent (1563) this study will be welcomed by scholars with an interest in the sixteenth-century Catholic Church. May 2012 270 pages Hardback 978-1-4094-1783-5 $124.95 ebook PDF 978-1-4094-4603-3 ebook ePUB 978-1-4094-8316-8 www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781409417835 Astrology and Magic from the Medieval Latin and Islamic World to renaissance Europe Theories and Approaches Paola Zambelli, University of Florence, Italy VArIOrUM COLLECTED STUDIES SErIES: CS997 Astrology and Magic from the Medieval Latin and Islamic World to Renaissance Europe brings together ten of Paola Zambelli’s papers on the subject, four of which are published in English for the first time. Contents: Preface. Part 1: astrology and magIC as theorIes: Theories on astrology and magic (1348–1586) in recent interpretations; Imagination and its power: desire and transitive or psychosomatic imagination; Pietro Pomponazzi’s De immortalitate and his clandestine De incantionibus: Aristotelianism, eclecticism or libertinism? Part 2: bIrth, CatastroPhe, CyCles and other astrologICal themes: ‘Creating worlds and then laying them waste’: the cyclical nature of history: notes on historians and on Giovanni Pico della Mirandola; ‘The earth was like a sponge and men lived within it’: ideas on spontaneous generation of man among Islamic and Latin thinkers. Part 3: astrologers and magICIans In theIr hIstorICal role: Astrologers’ theory of history; Many ends for the World: Luca Gaurico, instigator of the debate in Italy and Germany. Part 4: methodologICal notes: Alexandre Koyré and Lucien Lévy-Bruhl: from collective representations to paradigms of scientific thought; From Menocchio to Piero della Francesca: the work of Carlo Ginzburg; From the quaestiones to the essais: on the autonomy and methods of the history of philosophy; Bibliography of Zambelli’s writings; Indexes. August 2012 310 pages Hardback 978-1-4094-2514-4 $165.00 www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781409425144 PrIzewInner Ballads and Broadsides in Britain, 1500–1800 Edited by Patricia Fumerton, University of California, Santa Barbara, Anita Guerrini, Oregon State University and Kris McAbee, University of Arkansas shortlIsted for the katharIne brIggs award, 2011, sPonsored by the folklore soCIety (uk) “A hog-faced woman, murderous wives, blackface pirates—this rich collection of essays offers the latest word on British ballads from a wide spectrum of scholars in literature, ethnomusicology, folklore and history. Required reading for anyone with a sophisticated interest in pre-1800 popular culture in Britain and America.” —Leah Marcus, Vanderbilt University Includes 35 b&w illustrations and 6 music examples 2010 374 pages Hardback 978-0-7546-6248-8 $119.95 www.ashgate.com/isbn/9780754662488 Early Modern History Communes and Despots in Medieval and renaissance Italy Edited by John E. Law, Swansea University, UK and Bernadette Paton, Oxford University Press, UK “This volume includes contributions by the finest historians of late-medieval and Renaissance Italy on topics of abiding concern for history and political thought. Following the lead of the late Philip Jones, the contributors show how the old dichotomies of order versus political violence and liberty versus despotism no longer hold. No other work represents the dynamism of the historiography of Italy as well as this.” —Edward Muir, Northwestern University Includes 31 b&w illustrations and 6 maps 2010 376 pages Hardback 978-0-7546-6508-3 $99.95 www.ashgate.com/isbn/9780754665083 Cultural Exchange in Seventeenth-Century France and England Gesa Stedman, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany This ambitious new study is a comprehensive account of cross-channel cultural exchanges between seventeenth-century France and England, and includes discussion of literary texts, poems, historical figures, garden design, fashion, music, dance, food, the book market and the theater. Gesa Stedman investigates actual exchange processes in order to shed light on the connection between actual and symbolic exchange, and provides welcome insight into seventeenth-century cultural exchange. Contents: Introduction: theories of cultural exchange; A wise and happy mediator? Queen Henrietta Maria as cultural ambassador; So much æmulacion, poverty, and the vices of swearing, drinking and whoring— Charles II and Anglo-French culture; Vanquishing with our pens as our ancestors have with their swords—textual and visual representations of cultural exchange; Summary and outlook; Bibliography; Index. Includes 22 b&w illustrations January 2013 306 pages Hardback 978-0-7546-6938-8 $134.95 www.ashgate.com/isbn/9780754669388 Custom, Improvement and the Landscape in Early Modern Britain Edited by richard W. Hoyle, University of reading, UK Includes 10 b&w illustrations October 2011 328 pages Hardback 978-1-4094-0052-3 $124.95 www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781409400523 Tel: 800-535-9544 Email: orders@ashgate.com order online and receive a 10% discount www.ashgate.com/history 3
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