1st Edition

Counter-Reformation Sanctity in Global and Material Perspective

Edited By Ruth Sargent Noyes Copyright 2025
226 Pages 36 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

226 Pages 36 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

226 Pages 36 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book explores the making of saints’ cults in the early modern world from an interdisciplinary perspective, considering the entangled roles of materiality and globalization processes. It brings together work across diverse media, objects, and materials as well as communities, cultures, and geographies to reframe a more synoptic, materials-centric, and comparative history of the making and... Read more

1. Andrea Sacchi’s Three Magdalenes: Female Sexuality and Sacrifice in the Global Early Modern Church

Rachel Miller

2. Un mistico Armellino: Saints, Furs, and Slaves between the Lithuanian and Tuscan Grand Duchies

Ruth Sargent Noyes

3. Like Fire and Earth: Cremation and the Christian Cult of Relics in the Sixteenth Century

Urte Krass

4. Forming the Local Cult from the Religious Center: Osanna da Cattaro and Serafino Razzi

Valentina Živković

5. Sancti Christi Martyris Justini in Puebla de los Ángeles (Mexico) and the Cult of Catacomb Relics Between Rome and the Americas

Montserrat Andrea Báez Hernández

6. A Piercing Agony: Guercino’s Saint Sebastian Succored of 1619

Veronica White

7. The Multiple Cultural Identities Traversed in Anna Sztemberk’s Paper Votives

Erin Giffin

8. St. Bernard of Clairvaux and the Notion of Animate Images in Early Modern Spain

Livia Stoenescu

9. Capuchin Asceticism and the Cult of the Catacombs in Early Modern Rome

Jason Di Resta

Biography

Ruth Sargent Noyes is a visiting lecturer at the Estonian Academy of Arts in Tallinn, Estonia.