La Serenissima - a beautiful but deadly city where corrupt aristocrats rule and everything, including love, has a price.
This volume one of the only collections dedicated exclusively to the subject has been compiled with the assumption that a shared conceptual framework underpins the objects produced as part of the ritual of votive giving, and that by merit ...
By looking at what humans have chosen to offer in their votive transactions, this volume uncovers their most intimate moments in life and questions the nature, role, and function of one of the most fundamental aspects of the relationship ...
But there is, as Irene Small points out, a notable dii-Terence between contemporary votive photos and sixteenth—century votive panel paintings. “With a photograph, one could no longer picture the agent of intercession.
Originally published in 1902, this book provides an extensive survey of the tradition of votive offerings in ancient Greece.
This book analyses hundreds of votive body parts to examine how ideas about the human body changed throughout classical antiquity.
Votive Candles
David Anderson (Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir's Seminary Press, 1980) 49. See Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals; Ecce Homo, tr. Walter Kaufmann and R. J. Hollingdale (New York: Vintage Books, 1969) 68. See also Neal Krause, ...
Read the poems. Roll the dice. Cut out the couplets to create your own poems and fortunes. Be prepared for the strange and mysterious.
A driving force in folk religion, milagros, or ex-votos, are found in cathedrals, humble chapels in rural areas, and roadside shrines across Latin America. This book traces the use and...
Amulets are objects of supranormal potency that safeguard the wearer during critical periods of life passage and transformation. Ex-votos, small metal objects often in the shapes of human figures or...