Product details:
| ISBN13: | 9789004688094 |
| ISBN10: | 9004688099 |
| Binding: | Hardback |
| No. of pages: | 508 pages |
| Size: | 235x155 mm |
| Weight: | 1 g |
| Language: | English |
| 700 |
Category:
The Eschatological Imagination
Space, Time, and Experience (1300?1800)
Series:
Intersections;
96;
Publisher: BRILL
Date of Publication: 20 November 2024
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Short description:
This book explores how early-modern Christian eschatology understood the cosmological dimensions of space and time, and how ideas, representations, and practices concerning the afterlife evolved as the scientific breakthroughs of the time became matters of common knowledge.
Long description:
How did the early-modern Christian West conceive of the spaces and times of the afterlife? The answer to this question is not obvious for a period that saw profound changes in theology, when the telescope revealed the heavens to be as changeable and imperfect as the earth, and when archaeological and geological investigations made the earth and what lies beneath it another privileged site for the acquisition of new knowledge.
With its focus on the eschatological imagination at a time of transformation in cosmology, this volume opens up new ways of studying early-modern religious ideas, representations, and practices. The individual chapters explore a wealth of ? at times little-known ? visual and textual sources. Together they highlight how closely concepts and imaginaries of the hereafter were intertwined with the realities of the here and now.
Contributors: Matteo Al Kalak, Monica Azzolini, Wietse de Boer, Christine Göttler, Luke Holloway, Martha McGill, Walter S. Melion, Mia M. Mochizuki, Laurent Paya, Rapha?le Preisinger, Aviva Rothman, Minou Schraven, Anna-Claire Stinebring, Jane Tylus, and Antoinina Bevan Zlatar.
With its focus on the eschatological imagination at a time of transformation in cosmology, this volume opens up new ways of studying early-modern religious ideas, representations, and practices. The individual chapters explore a wealth of ? at times little-known ? visual and textual sources. Together they highlight how closely concepts and imaginaries of the hereafter were intertwined with the realities of the here and now.
Contributors: Matteo Al Kalak, Monica Azzolini, Wietse de Boer, Christine Göttler, Luke Holloway, Martha McGill, Walter S. Melion, Mia M. Mochizuki, Laurent Paya, Rapha?le Preisinger, Aviva Rothman, Minou Schraven, Anna-Claire Stinebring, Jane Tylus, and Antoinina Bevan Zlatar.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
Notes on the Editors
Notes on the Contributors
1 The Space-Time Dimension of Early Modern Eschatology: An Introduction
Wietse de Boer and Christine Göttler
2 Depicting the Universal Conflagration: Time, Space, and Artifice in Peter Paul Rubens?s Fall of the Damned
Christine Göttler
3 A Castle in the Air? Space, Time, and Sensation in Gabriel de Henao?s Empyreologia
Wietse de Boer
4 Kepler?s Somnium as Purgatorial Journey
Aviva Rothman
5 The Birth of Hell: An Angel, His Fall, and His Reign among Us
Matteo Al Kalak
6 ?Oh, How Unlike the Place from Whence They Fell!? John Milton?s Primordial Hell in Paradise Lost
Antoinina Bevan Zlatar
7 God?s Underlands: Athanasius Kircher?s Epic Journey in the Mundus Subterraneus
Monica Azzolini
8 Ecstatic Visions: The Eschatological Imagination of Spanish Mystic Juana de la Cruz (d. 1534)
Minou Schraven
9 Describing the Inconceivable in Eighteenth-Century Methodist and Quaker Visions of the Afterlife
Martha McGill and Luke Holloway
10 From the Isle of Patmos to the Territory of the Plumed Serpent: Eschatological Imaginations Sparked by the Virgin of Guadalupe in Colonial New Spain
Rapha?le Preisinger
11 Pondering Mary: Michelangelo?s Farewell to Dante
Jane Tylus
12 The Calvinist Theatre of God as a Pleasure Garden at the Time of the First French War of Religion (ca. 1560)
Laurent Paya
13 The Desert at the World?s End: Eschatological Space in Van Hemessen?s Hermit Landscapes
Anna-Claire Stinebring
14 ?Abstracto igitur animo?: Eschatological Image-Making in the Emblematic Spiritual Exercises of Jan David, S.J.
Walter S. Melion
15 The Jesuit Martyrdom Landscape and the Optics of Death
Mia M. Mochizuki
Index Nominum
List of Figures
Notes on the Editors
Notes on the Contributors
1 The Space-Time Dimension of Early Modern Eschatology: An Introduction
Wietse de Boer and Christine Göttler
Part 1: Cosmology and Eschatology
2 Depicting the Universal Conflagration: Time, Space, and Artifice in Peter Paul Rubens?s Fall of the Damned
Christine Göttler
3 A Castle in the Air? Space, Time, and Sensation in Gabriel de Henao?s Empyreologia
Wietse de Boer
4 Kepler?s Somnium as Purgatorial Journey
Aviva Rothman
Part 2: Underlands and Netherworlds
5 The Birth of Hell: An Angel, His Fall, and His Reign among Us
Matteo Al Kalak
6 ?Oh, How Unlike the Place from Whence They Fell!? John Milton?s Primordial Hell in Paradise Lost
Antoinina Bevan Zlatar
7 God?s Underlands: Athanasius Kircher?s Epic Journey in the Mundus Subterraneus
Monica Azzolini
Part 3: Visions of Heaven and Hell
8 Ecstatic Visions: The Eschatological Imagination of Spanish Mystic Juana de la Cruz (d. 1534)
Minou Schraven
9 Describing the Inconceivable in Eighteenth-Century Methodist and Quaker Visions of the Afterlife
Martha McGill and Luke Holloway
10 From the Isle of Patmos to the Territory of the Plumed Serpent: Eschatological Imaginations Sparked by the Virgin of Guadalupe in Colonial New Spain
Rapha?le Preisinger
Part 4: Spiritual Reckoning and Refuge
11 Pondering Mary: Michelangelo?s Farewell to Dante
Jane Tylus
12 The Calvinist Theatre of God as a Pleasure Garden at the Time of the First French War of Religion (ca. 1560)
Laurent Paya
Part 5: Sites of Purgation, Meditation, and Martyrdom
13 The Desert at the World?s End: Eschatological Space in Van Hemessen?s Hermit Landscapes
Anna-Claire Stinebring
14 ?Abstracto igitur animo?: Eschatological Image-Making in the Emblematic Spiritual Exercises of Jan David, S.J.
Walter S. Melion
15 The Jesuit Martyrdom Landscape and the Optics of Death
Mia M. Mochizuki
Index Nominum