Images on a mission in early modern Kongo and Angola
Material type:
TextPublisher: University Park, Pennsylvania The Pennsylvania State University Press 2022Description: xvii, 245 p. illContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780271092188
- 0271092181
- 9780271094090
- Capuchin art -- 17th century -- Kongo Kingdom
- Capuchin art -- 18th century -- Kongo Kingdom
- Capuchin art -- 17th century -- Angola
- Capuchin art -- 18th century -- Angola
- Capuchins -- Missions -- Kongo Kingdom -- History -- 17th century
- Capuchins -- Missions -- Kongo Kingdom -- History -- 18th century
- Capuchins -- Missions -- Angola -- History -- 17th century
- Capuchins -- Missions -- Angola -- History -- 18th century
- 266.1*72 -- Missie en kunst
- 266 <675> -- Missies. Evangelisatie. Zending--Zaïre. Belgisch Kongo -- Missions. Evangelisation--Zaïre. Belgisch Kongo
| 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"Presents and analyzes a set of unpublished images from seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Kongo and Angola created within the Capuchin Franciscan mission to the region"-- Provided by publisher.