Images on a mission in early modern Kongo and Angola

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: University Park, Pennsylvania The Pennsylvania State University Press 2022Description: xvii, 245 p. illContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780271092188
  • 0271092181
  • 9780271094090
Subject(s):
Contents:
"Nonsense" : Capuchin images of Kongo and Angola against Italian preconceptions -- Practical guides to the mission : the Capuchin Central-African corpus -- Images and devotion -- Images as method -- Images against idolatry -- With "the consent of the people, and the secular arm of the prince" -- Penned by encounter : Capuchins, Central Africans, and the making of a cross-cultural discourse.
Summary: "Presents and analyzes a set of unpublished images from seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Kongo and Angola created within the Capuchin Franciscan mission to the region"-- Provided by publisher.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
book Library of Colonial History 131.823 H Available RMCA60404

Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-236) and index.

"Nonsense" : Capuchin images of Kongo and Angola against Italian preconceptions -- Practical guides to the mission : the Capuchin Central-African corpus -- Images and devotion -- Images as method -- Images against idolatry -- With "the consent of the people, and the secular arm of the prince" -- Penned by encounter : Capuchins, Central Africans, and the making of a cross-cultural discourse.

"Presents and analyzes a set of unpublished images from seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Kongo and Angola created within the Capuchin Franciscan mission to the region"-- Provided by publisher.