Foundation, Dedication and Consecration in Early Modern Europe
Biographical note
Maarten Delbeke, Ph.D. (2001) in Architecture, Ghent University, is Associate Professor at Ghent University, and researcher at the LUICD of Leiden University. He has published on Early Modern theory of art and architecture, as well as modern architecture
Minou Schraven, Ph.D. (2006) in Art History, Groningen University, is postdoctoral fellow at Leiden University. She has published on early modern material and festival culture, including her Festive Funerals in Early Modern Italy. Cultures of Conspicuous Commemoration (in press, Ashgate).
Minou Schraven, Ph.D. (2006) in Art History, Groningen University, is postdoctoral fellow at Leiden University. She has published on early modern material and festival culture, including her Festive Funerals in Early Modern Italy. Cultures of Conspicuous Commemoration (in press, Ashgate).
Readership
All those interested in foundation rituals and narratives and their implications for the history of art, law, architecture, religion and historiography.
Table of contents
Acknowledgements
Notes on the Editors
Notes on the Contributors
List of Figures
List of Maps
Foundation, Dedication and Consecration in Early Modern Europe: An Introduction
MAARTEN DELBEKE AND MINOU SCHRAVEN
I. FOUNDATION AND THE HUMANIST QUEST FOR ORIGINS
Founding an Ideal City in Filarete’s Libro Architettonico
BERTHOLD HUB
Stepping Out of Brunelleschi’s Shadow: The Consecration of S. Maria del Fiore as International Statecraft in Renaissance Florence
ROGER J. CRUM
Establishing Independence: Leonardo Bruni’s History of the Florentine People and Ritual in Fifteenth-Century Florence
BRIAN J. MAXSON
Pienza: Relics, Ritual and Architecture in the City of a Renaissance Pope
SUSAN J. MAY
Founding Rome Anew: Sixtus IV and the Foundation of Ponte Sisto, 1473
MINOU SCHRAVEN
II. (RE)FOUNDATION AS PURIFICATION AND APPROPRIATION
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
III CONSECRATION CEREMONIES AFTER TRENT
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
III. NEW BEGINNINGS
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 WILDER
Index Nominum
Notes on the Editors
Notes on the Contributors
List of Figures
List of Maps
Foundation, Dedication and Consecration in Early Modern Europe: An Introduction
MAARTEN DELBEKE AND MINOU SCHRAVEN
I. FOUNDATION AND THE HUMANIST QUEST FOR ORIGINS
Founding an Ideal City in Filarete’s Libro Architettonico
BERTHOLD HUB
Stepping Out of Brunelleschi’s Shadow: The Consecration of S. Maria del Fiore as International Statecraft in Renaissance Florence
ROGER J. CRUM
Establishing Independence: Leonardo Bruni’s History of the Florentine People and Ritual in Fifteenth-Century Florence
BRIAN J. MAXSON
Pienza: Relics, Ritual and Architecture in the City of a Renaissance Pope
SUSAN J. MAY
Founding Rome Anew: Sixtus IV and the Foundation of Ponte Sisto, 1473
MINOU SCHRAVEN
II. (RE)FOUNDATION AS PURIFICATION AND APPROPRIATION
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
III CONSECRATION CEREMONIES AFTER TRENT
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
III. NEW BEGINNINGS
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 WILDER
Index Nominum
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