Images on a Mission in Early Modern Kongo and Angola / Cécile Fromont.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fromont, Cécile, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Capuchin art--Kongo Kingdom--17th century.

Capuchin art.

Capuchin art--Kongo Kingdom--18th century.

Capuchin art--Angola--17th century.

Capuchin art--Angola--18th century.

Capuchins--Missions--Kongo Kingdom--History--17th century.

Capuchins.

Capuchins--Missions--Kongo Kingdom--History--18th century.

Capuchins--Missions--Angola--History--17th century.

Capuchins--Missions--Angola--History--18th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (398 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

University Park, PA : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2022]

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"Presents and analyzes a set of unpublished images from seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Kongo and Angola created within the Capuchin Franciscan mission to the region"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

Half Title Page

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

List of Illustrations

List of Tables

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. "Nonsense": Capuchin Images of Kongo and Angola Against Italian Preconceptions

2. Practical Guides to the Mission: The Capuchin Central-African Corpus

3. Images and Devotion

4. Images as Method

5. Images Against Idolatry

6. With "the Consent of the People, and the Secular Arm of the Prince"

7. Penned by Encounter: Capuchins, Central Africans, and the Making of a Cross-Cultural Discourse

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Fromont, Cécile Images on a Mission in Early Modern Kongo and Angola

ISBN:

9780271094090

OCLC:

1313883349