TY - BOOK AU - Spinks,Jennifer AU - Eichberger,Dagmar TI - Religion, the Supernatural and Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe: An Album Amicorum for Charles Zika T2 - Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions Series SN - 9789004299016 AV - BL65 .C8 R45423 2015 PY - 2015/// CY - Boston PB - BRILL KW - Religion and culture-Europe-History KW - Art and religion-Europe-History KW - Electronic books N1 - Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Scholarship, Friendship and Border-Crossing -- Part 1 Supernatural Agency and Communities of Belief -- Chapter 1 The Collaboration from Hell: A Plague Strike Force at S. Pietro in Vincoli, Rome -- Chapter 2 The Demonic Possession of Richard Dugdale -- Chapter 3 Salem Girls (1692): Problems of Gender and Agency -- Chapter 4 "Ringing of the Bells by Four White Spirits": Two Seventeenth-Century English Earwitness Accounts of the Supernatural in Print Culture -- Part 2 Religion and Cultural Authority -- Chapter 5 "It is a Great Disgrace for Our City": Archbishop Antoninus and Heresy in Renaissance Florence -- Chapter 6 Endor and Amsterdam: The Image of Witchcraft as a Weapon in the Political Arena -- Chapter 7 Deep Down in Spirituality: Efforts of Seventeenth-Century New Netherlanders to Access God -- Chapter 8 Paraluther: Explaining an Unexpected Portrait of Paracelsus in Andreas Hartmann's Curriculum Vitae Lutheri (1601) -- Part 3 The (Un)natural World -- Chapter 9 "Making Feast of the Prisoner": Roger Barlow, Hans Staden and Ideas of New World Cannibalism -- Chapter 10 Signs that Speak: Reporting the 1556 Comet across French and German Borders -- Chapter 11 Disorder in the Natural World: The Perspectives of the Sixteenth-Century Provincial Convent -- Chapter 12 De Profundis: Linear Leviathans in the Lowlands -- Chapter 13 The Ferocious Dragon and the Docile Elephant: The Unleashing of Sin in Rembrandt's Garden of Eden -- Part 4 Artefacts and Material Culture -- Chapter 14 Salience and the Snail: Liminality and Incarnation in Francesco del Cossa's Annunciation (c. 1470) -- Chapter 15 Luther Relics -- Chapter 16 The Art of Making Memory: Epitaphs, Tables and Adages at Westminster Abbey; Chapter 17 The Pope's Merchandise and the Jesuits' Trumpery: Catholic Relics and Protestant Polemic in Post-Reformation England -- Index of Names and Places N2 - This volume brings together some of the most exciting current scholarship on these themes. This interdisciplinary and geographically broad-ranging volume pays tribute to the ground-breaking work of Charles Zika UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=2110728 ER -