Foundation, dedication and consecration in early modern Europe / edited by Maarten Delbeke and Minou Schraven.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Delbeke, Maarten.

Schraven, Minou.

Series:

Intersections (Boston, Mass.) ; v. 22.

Intersections : interdisciplinary studies in early modern culture, 1568-1811 ; v. 22

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture and society--Europe--History.

Architecture and society.

Architecture--Human factors--Europe--History.

Architecture.

Dedication services--Europe--History.

Dedication services.

Church dedication--Europe--History.

Church dedication.

Rites and ceremonies--Europe--History.

Rites and ceremonies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (414 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Across all times and cultures, mankind has attached great importance to the foundation of buildings, cities and communities. By means of rituals of foundation, dedication and consecration, buildings and objects are charged with meaning. At the same time, these rituals bear witness of the way communities understand their own place in history, and how they position themselves in relation to others. As such, the study of these rituals deepens our understanding of society at large. Bringing together contributions from art history, architectural history, historiography and history of law, this volume is the first comprehensive exploration of the manifold meanings of foundation, dedication and consecration in early modern culture, which combined a renewed interest in notions of origins, history and identity with an exceptionally rich production of artefacts. Contributors include Piers Baker-Bates, Jorge Correia, Roger J. Crum, Maarten Delbeke, Alison C. Fleming, Dagmar Germonprez, Carmelina Gugliuzzo, Berthold Hub, Indra Kagis McEwen, Susan J. May, Brian J. Maxson, Anne-Françoise Morel, Almut Pollmer, Bernward Schmidt, Minou Schraven, Andrew Spicer, and Colin Wilder.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Foundation, Dedication and Consecration in Early Modern Europe. An Introduction / Maarten Delbeke and Schraven Minou

Founding an Ideal City in Filarete’s Libro Architettonico / Berthold Hub

Stepping Out of Brunelleschi’s Shadow. The Consecration of Santa Maria del Fiore as International Statecraft in Medicean Florence / Roger J. Crum

Establishing Independence: Leonardo Bruni’s History of the Florentine People and Ritual in Fifteenth-Century Florence / Brian Jeffrey Maxson

Pienza: Relics, Ritual and Architecture in the City of a Renaissance Pope / Susan J. May

Founding Rome Anew. Pope Sixtus IV and the Foundation of Ponte Sisto, 1473 / Minou Schraven

A Means for the Projection of ‘Soft Power’: ‘Spanish’ Churches at Rome 1469–1527 / Piers Baker-Bates

Clash of Power and Creed: Cultural (Re)foundations in Northwest Africa / Jorge Correia

Building a Sense of Belonging. The Foundation of Valletta in Malta / Carmelina Gugliuzzo

St Ignatius of Loyola’s “Vision at La Storta” and the Foundation of the Society of Jesus / Alison C. Fleming

Consecration and Violation: Preserving the Sacred Landscape in the (Arch)diocese of Cambrai, c. 1550–1570 / Andrew Spicer

Foundation Rites in the Southern Netherlands: Constructing a Counter-Reformational Architecture / Dagmar Germonprez

Church Consecration in England 1549–1715: An Unestablished Ceremony / Anne-Françoise Morel

Ritual and its Negation. ‘Dedicatio Ecclesiae’ and the Reformed First Sermon / Almut Pollmer-Schmidt and Bernward Schmidt

Midsummer Moderns: The Foundation of the Paris Observatory 21 June 1667 / Indra Kagis McEwen

The Importance of Beginning, Over and Over: The Idea of Primitive Germanic Law / Colin F. Wilder

Index Nominum.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-36610-X

9786613366108

90-04-22208-1

OCLC:

774290468

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004222083 DOI