Eloquent Images: Evangelisation, Conversion and Propaganda in the Global World of the Early Modern Period

The Christian image in the process of modern globalisation

Drawing on original research covering different periods and spaces, this book sets out to appreciate the specific place of images in the history of evangelisation in the long modern period. How can we reconceptualise the functions of the visual mediation of the gospel message, both in terms of the production and reception of this message and in terms of its effective mediators, artists, religious, and cultural ambassadors? The contributions in this book offer multiple geographical and historical insights regarding the circulation of the image on the global scale of the Christianised world or the world in the process of being Christianised, from China to Iberia. Combining the contribution of historians and art historians, the authors highlight the points of intercultural encounter and tension around preaching, catechesis, devotional practices and the propagandistic use of images.
Through its aesthetic and social study of the image, and by examining the inner and outer borders of Europe and the mission lands, Eloquent Images contributes significantly to the history of evangelisation, one of the major dynamics of the first European globalisation.

Contributors: Pierre-Antoine Fabre (EHESS, Paris), Clara Lieutaghi (EHESS Paris), Silvia Notarfonso (Universit di Macerata), Silvia Mostaccio (UCLouvain), Mauro Salis (Universit di Cagliari), Valentina Borniotto (Universit di Genova), Gwladys Le Cuff (Paris-Sorbonne – EHESS Paris), Mauricio Oviedo Salazar (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen), Maria Joo Pereira Coutinho (IHA/FCSH/NOVA Lisbon), Slvia Ferreira (IHA/FCSH/NOVA Lisbon), Paulo De Campos Pinto (Universidade Catlica Portuguesa), Lorenzo Ratto (Universit di Genova), Stephanie Porras (Tulane University), Arianna Magnani (Universit Ca’ Foscari di Venezia), Michela Catto (Universit di Torino), Federico Palomo (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), Roberto Ricci (Istituto storico italiano per l’et moderna e contemporanea, Roma), Francesco Sorce (independent scholar), Maria Vittoria Spissu (Universit di Bologna).

Author: Giuseppe Capriotti
Publisher: Leuven University Press
Published: 07/15/2022
Pages: 370
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.80lbs
Size: 8.98h x 6.61w x 0.79d
ISBN13: 9789462703278
ISBN10: 9462703272
BISAC Categories:
– Religion | History

About the Author

Giuseppe Capriotti is an early modern art historian at the University of Macerata.

Pierre-Antoine Fabre is historian of modern Catholicism and Evangelization at the Ecole des hautes tudes en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris.

Sabina Pavone is professor of early modern history and global history at the University of Macerata.