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Amsterdam University Press 9789462982642 Kramer, Rethinking Authority in the Carolingian Empire 9789462984677 Bentley, Picturing Commerce in and from the East Asian Maritime Circuits, 15501800 9789462985537 Maurer, Gender, Space and Experience at the Renaissance Court 9789462986015 Unger, Redefining Eclecticism in Early Modern Bolognese Painting 9789462986497 Drago, Painted Alchemists 9789462987500 Hopkins/Norrie, Women on the Edge in Early Modern Europe

Arc Humanities Press 9781641890823 Baker, Medieval Islamic Sectarianism 9781641891127 Clarke, Medieval Cityscapes Today 9781641891271 Oosthuizen, The Emergence of the English 9781641892872 Christ on a Donkey â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Palm Sunday, Triumphal Entries, and Blasphemous Pageants

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AMSTERDAM UNIVERSITY PRESS THE EARLY MEDIEVAL NORTH ATLANTIC

By Rutger Kramer

Rethinking Authority in the Carolingian Empire Ideals and Expectations during the Reign of Louis the Pious (813-828) By the early ninth century, the responsibility for a series of social, religious and political reforms had become an integral part of running the Carolingian empire. This became especially clear when, in 813/4, Louis the Pious and his court seized the momentum generated by their predecessors and broadened the scope of this correctio ever further. These reformers knew they constituted a movement greater than the sum of its parts; the interdependence of imperial authority and ecclesiastical reformers was driven by comprehensive, yet surprisingly diverse expectations. Taking this diversity as a starting point, this book takes a fresh look at these optimistic decades. Extrapolating from a series of detailed case studies rather than presenting a grand narrative, it offers new interpretations of contemporary theories of correctio, and shows the selfawareness of its main instigators as they pondered what it meant to be a good Christian in a good Christian empire.

Rutger Kramer, PhD is currently a postdoctoral researcher within the project Visions of Community (F42) at the Institute for Medieval Research in Vienna. The Early Medieval North Atlantic February 2019 320 pages, 1 line art illustration Hardback 156 x 234 mm ISBN 978 94 6298 264 2 e-ISBN 978 90 4853 268 1 €105.00 / £90.00 / $130.00 €104.99 / £89.99 / $129.99

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Prologue Great Expectations Chapter 1 Framing the Carolingian Reforms â&#x20AC;&#x201C; The Early Years of Louis the Pious Building an Empire Communities and Discourse Communities Between Cloister and Court Chapter 2 A Model for Empire â&#x20AC;&#x201C; The Councils of 813 and the Institutio Canonicorum The Road to 813 Teaching the Empire 'An Effort, not an Honour': Bishops and their Responsibilities Church Fathers in Aachen Correcting Communities Communicating Correctio Channelling Authority Chapter 3 Monks on the Via Regia: The World of Smaragdus of Saint-Mihiel A Life in Context Directions for a King: The Via Regia Explaining A Way: The Expositio in Regulam Sancti Benedicti A Crowning Achievement: The Diadema Monachorum The Lives of Smaragdus of Saint-Mihiel Chapter 4 Caesar et abba simul: Monastic Reforms between Aachen and Aniane The Emperor and the Monks On the Outside Looking In 'Armed with the Javelins of Debate': Benedict of Aniane goes to Court The Death of an Abbot Epilogue Imperial Responsibilities and the Discourse of Reforms

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AMSTERDAM UNIVERSITY PRESS VISUAL AND MATERIAL CULTURE, 1300-1700

Edited by Tamara H. Bentley

Picturing Commerce in and from the East Asian Maritime Circuits, 1550-1800 Combining strikingly new scholarship by art historians, historians, and ethnomusicologists, this interdisciplinary volume illuminates trade ties within East Asia, and from East Asia outwards, in the years 1550 to 1800. While not encyclopedic, the selected topics greatly advance our sense of this trade picture. Throughout the book, multipart trade structures are excavated; the presence of European powers within the Asian trade nexus features as part of this narrative. Visual goods are highlighted, including lacquerwares, musical instruments, Chinese bronze coins, unfired ceramic portrait figurines, and Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Southeast Asian ceramic vessels. These essays underscore the significance of Asian industries producing multiples, and the rhetorical charge of these goods, shifting in meaning as they move. Building reverberations between merchant networks and the look of the objects themselves, this richly-illustrated book brings to light the Asian trade engine powering the early modern visual cultures of East and Southeast Asia, the American colonies, and Europe.

Tamara Bentley is an Associate Professor of Asian Art History at Colorado College in the United States. She has published a book on the Chinese 17th century painter and printmaker Chen Hongshou, and she also writes about art and international trade. Visual and Material Culture, 1300-1700 February 2018 364 pages, 30 colour, 68 b/w illustrations Hardback 170 x 240 mm ISBN 978 94 6298 467 7 e-ISBN 978 90 4853 544 6 €105.00 / £90.00 / $130.00 €104.99 / £89.99 / $129.99

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Chapter One: People and Things in Motion: The View from the East by Tamara H. Bentley I: CIRCUITS AND EXCHANGES Chapter Two: The Maritime Trading World of East Asia from the Thirteenth to the Seventeenth Centuries by Richard von Glahn Chapter Three: The Junk Trade and Hokkien Merchant Networks in Maritime Asia: 1570—1760 by James K. Chin Chapter Four: The Trade Activities of 16th century Christian Daimyo Otomo Sorin by Hiroko Nishida II: COMMODITIES Chapter Five: From Global to Local: The Diaspora of Asian Decorative Arts in Colonial Latin America by Donna Pierce Chapter Six: Trans-Pacific Connections: Contraband Mercury Trade in the 16th to early 18th Century by Angela Schottenhammer Chapter Seven: “the Features are Esteem’d very just”: Chinese Unfired Clay Portrait Figures of Westerners by William R. Sargent III: HYBRID AESTHETICS Chapter Eight: The Global Keyboard: Music, Visual Forms, and Maritime Trade in the Early Modern Era by Victoria Levine Chapter Nine Barbarian Tropes Framed Anew: Three Qing Dynasty Chinese Lacquer Screens of Europeans Hunting by Tamara H. Bentley Chapter Ten: Chinese Porcelain, the East India Company and British Cultural Identity, 1600-1800 by Stacey Pierson

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AMSTERDAM UNIVERSITY PRESS VISUAL AND MATERIAL CULTURE, 1300-1700

By Maria F. Maurer

Gender, Space and Experience at the Renaissance Court Performance and Practice at the Palazzo Te This book investigates the dynamic relationships between gender and architectural space in Renaissance Italy. It examines the ceremonial use and artistic reception of the Palazzo Te from the arrival of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V in 1530 to the Sack of Mantua in 1630. This book further proposes that we conceptualise the built environment as a performative space, a space formed by the gendered relationships and actors of its time, asserting that the Palazzo Te was constituted by the gendered behaviors of sixteenth-century courtiers, but it was not simply a passive receptor of gender performance. Through its multivalent form and ceremonial function, Maria F. Maurer argues that the palace was an active participant in the construction and perception of femininity and masculinity in the early modern court. Maria F. Maurer is assistant professor of medieval and early modern art history at the University of Tulsa since 2013. Phd in the history of Italian Renaissance art from Indiana University granted in 2012. Visual and Material Culture, 1300-1700 February 2018 320 pages, 10 colour, 56 b/w illustrations Hardback 170 x 240 mm ISBN 978 94 6298 553 7 e-ISBN 978 90 4853 668 9 €95.00 / £85.00 / $115.00 €94.99 / £84.99 / $114.99

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The Palace in Cyberspace: a note on the virtual tour List of figures Acknowledgments Chapter 1: The Performative Palace Chapter 2: Spaces of Ceremony Chapter 3: The Palace in Time Chapter 4: The Unbounded Palace Chapter 5: Troubling Space Epilogue: Ruin and Rebirth Bibliography

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AMSTERDAM UNIVERSITY PRESS VISUAL AND MATERIAL CULTURE, 1300-1700

By Daniel M. Unger

Redefining Eclecticism in Early Modern Bolognese Painting Ideology, Practice, and Criticism This book focuses on the unique nature of early modern Bolognese painting that found its expression in stylistic diversity. The flourishing of different stylistic approaches in the Mannerist paintings of the previous generation evolved, at the turn the seventeenth century, in the work of the Bolognese painters into an approach best described as eclecticism, characterized by the combination of two or more styles in a single work of art. Eclectic was a major innovation and major contribution to the history of art. But it then also became a critical term that suffered much negative press. The book therefore also traces the role of eclecticism as a concept in the evolution of criticism and scholarship about the Bolognese school of painting over 250 years, showing how the dramatically vacillating attitudes towards this concept shaped the historical view of the Bolognese painters, ultimately having a tremendous dampening impact on our understanding of seventeenth-century art.

Daniel M. Unger teaches art history at BenGurion University, Israel. He specializes in early modern Italian painting. Unger is the author of

Guercino's Paintings and His Patrons' Politics in Early Modern Italy. Visual and Material Culture, 1300-1700 February 2019 296 pages, 8 colour, 44 b/w illustrations Hardback 170 x 240 mm ISBN 978 94 6298 601 5 e-ISBN 978 90 4853 725 9 €95.00 / £85.00 / $115.00 €94.99 / £84.99 / $114.99

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List of Plates and Figures Preface Introduction Chapter One: Defining Eclecticism - Assimilated Eclecticism - Vasari's Raphael - Arbitrary Eclecticism - Non-Assimilated Eclecticism - A Definition Chapter Two: Ideology - Gabriele Paleotti's Discourse on Sacred Images - A Pictorial Manifest: Alliance between Disegno and Colore - Carlo Cesare Malvasia and the Assemblage of Styles Chapter Three: Practice - The Terrestrial and Celestial Realms - Portraits of Saints: St. Carlo Borromeo - Other Eclectic Paintings Chapter Four: Criticism - Winckelmann's Introduction of Eclecticism into Artistic Discourse - The Nineteenth-Century Juste milieu - The Dismissal of Eclecticism in the Twentieth Century Conclusion: The Eclectic Approach Epilogue: Eclecticism in a Roman Chapel Works Cited

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AMSTERDAM UNIVERSITY PRESS AMSTERDAM STUDIES IN THE DUTCH GOLDEN AGE

By Elisabeth Berry Drago

Painted Alchemists Early Modern Artistry and Experiment in the Work of Thomas Wijck Thomas Wijck's painted alchemical laboratories were celebrated in his day as "artful" and "ingenious." They fell into obscurity along with their subject, as alchemy came to be viewed as an occult art or a fool's errand. But these unusual pictures challenge our understanding of early modern alchemy-and of the deeper relationship between chemical workshops and the artists who represented them. The work of artists, like the work of alchemists, contained intellectual-creative and manual-material aspects. Both alchemists and artists claimed a special status owing to their creative powers. Wijck's formation of an artistic and professional identity around alchemical themes reveals his desire to explore this curious territory, and ultimately to demonstrate art's superior claims to knowledge and mastery over nature. This book explores one artist's transformation of alchemy and its materials into a reputation for virtuosity-and what his work can teach us about the experimental early modern world.

Dr. Berry Drago studies interconnected histories of art and science in the Dutch Golden Age. She received her PhD from the University of Delaware, and is a former Fellow of the Science History Institute in Philadelphia. Amsterdam Studies in the Dutch Golden Age February 2019 304 pages, 33 colour, 52 b/w illustrations Hardback 156 x 234 mm ISBN 978 94 6298 649 7 e-ISBN 978 90 4853 777 8 €95.00 / £85.00 / $115.00 €94.99 / £84.99 / $114.99

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INTRODUCTION 1. CURIOSITY AND CONVENTION Authority and Secrecy Bruegel, Stradanus, and Beyond: Pictorial Precedents 2. THOMAS WIJCK, “ARTFUL” AND “INGENIOUS” The Young Wijck An Expanding Market Wijck’s Reputation 3. WIJCK’S ALCHEMICAL ARTISANS Chronology The Alchemist as Paterfamilias The Alchemist as Artisan The Alchemist as Scholar 4. AN EXPERIMENT IN HAARLEM Practical Alchemy in Wijck’s Networks Van Eyck, Goltzius and the Model of the Experimental Artist Representing Alchemy in Haarlem 5. THE ARTIST’S LABORATORIES ABROAD Alchemy, Magic, and “Secrets” in Rome and Naples Elite Experiment in London The “Foreign” Alchemist 6. THE MASTER OF NATURE Oil Painting and the Art-Alchemy Debate Making and Representing Pigments Alchemy, Artistry, and Identity 7. EPILOGUE ENDNOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY

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AMSTERDAM UNIVERSITY PRESS GENDERING THE LATE MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN WORLD

Edited by Lisa Hopkins and Aidan Norrie

Women on the Edge in Early Modern Europe This book examines the lives of women whose gender impeded the exercise of their personal, political, and religious agency, with an emphasis on the conflict that occurred when they crossed the edges society placed on their gender. Many of the women featured in this collection have only been afforded cursory scholarly focus, or the focus has been isolated to a specific, (in)famous event. This collection redresses this imbalance by providing comprehensive discussions of the women's lives, placing the matter that makes them known to history within the context of their entire life. Focusing on women from different backgrounds - such as Marie Meurdrac, the French chemist; Anna Trapnel, the Fifth Monarchist and prophetess; and Cecilia of Sweden, princess, margravine, countess, and regent - this collection brings together a wide range of scholars from a variety of disciplines to bring attention to these previously overlooked women. Lisa Hopkins is Professor of English at Sheffield Hallam University and co-editor of Shakespeare, of the Arden Early Modern Drama Guides, and of Arden Studies in Early Modern Drama. Aidan Norrie is a historian of monarchy, and is a Chancellor's International Scholar in the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance at The University of Warwick. Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World February 2019 240 pages, 10 b/w illustrations Hardback 156 x 234 mm ISBN 978 94 6298 750 0 e-ISBN 978 90 4853 917 8 €95.00 / £85.00 / $115.00 €94.99 / £84.99 / $114.99

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TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgements List of Figures Notes on Contributors 1. Introduction: Early Modern European Women and the Edge Aidan Norrie and Lisa Hopkins Section I: Life on the Edge 2. 'At the mercy of a strange woman': Plague Nurses, Marginality, and Fear during the Great Plague of 1665 Lara Thorpe 3. Chemistry, Medicine, and Beauty on the Edge: Marie Meurdrac Sarah Gordon 4. Anna Stanislawska's Orphan Girl of 1685: Autobiography of a Divorce Lynn Lubamersky Section II: Witchcraft and the Edge 5. Touching on the Margins: Elizabeth Sawyer's Body in Performance and Print Alex MacConochie 6. Anna Trapnel: Prophet or Witch? Debra Parish Section III: Courtly Women on the Edge 7. Wife, Widow, Exiled Queen: Beatrice d'Aragona (1457-1508) and Kinship in Early Modern Europe Jessica O'Leary 8. On the Edge of the S(h)elf: Arbella Stuart Lisa Hopkins 9. Cecilia of Sweden: Princess, Margravine, Countess, Regent Aidan Norrie 10. 'Elizabeth the Forgotten': The Life of Princess Elizabeth Stuart (1635-1650) Jessica L. Becker Epilogue: The Early Modern Edge in the Twenty-first Century Available outside North America through NBN International | www.distribution.nbni.co.uk Available in North America through Baker & Taylor Publisher Services | www.btpubservices.com Amsterdam University Press Nieuwe Prinsengracht 89 1018 VR Amsterdam

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11. Catalina de Erauso-'the Lieutenant Nun'-at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century Eva Mendieta Index

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AMSTERDAM UNIVERSITY PRESS ARC HUMANITIES PRESS – PAST IMPERFECT

By Christine Danielle Baker

Medieval Islamic Sectarianism This book asks readers to re-examine their view of the Islamic world and the development of sectarianism in the Middle East by shining a light on the complexity and diversity of early Islamic society. The focus here is on the tenth century, a period in Middle Eastern history that has often been referred to as the “Shiʿi Century,” when two Shiʿi dynasties rose to power: the Fatimids of North Africa and the Buyids of Iraq and Iran. Historians often call the period after the Shiʿi Century the “Sunni Revival” because that was when Sunni control was restored, but these terms present a misleading image of a unified medieval Islam that was predominately Sunni. While Sunni Islam eventually became politically and numerically dominant, Sunni and Shiʿi identities took centuries to develop as independent communities. When modern discussions of sectarianism in the Middle East reduce these identities to a 1400-year war between Sunnis and Shiʿis, we create a false narrative. Christine D. Baker is an Assistant Professor of History at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. She received both her PhD in Islamic history (2013) and her M.A. in Middle Eastern Studies (2006) from the University of Texas at Austin. ARC - Past Imperfect February 2019 128 pages, 1 b/w illustration Paperback 111 x 181 mm ISBN 978 16 4189 082 3 e-ISBN 978 16 4189 083 0 €14.95 / £11.95 / $14.95

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Timeline Introduction 1: When did Sunnism become orthodox? 2: Non-Sunni Islams Before the Tenth Century 3: The Fatimids and Isma平ili Shi平ism in North Africa 4: The Buyids and Shi平ism in Baghdad Conclusion: Reactions to the Shi平i Century Glossary Further Reading

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AMSTERDAM UNIVERSITY PRESS ARC HUMANITIES PRESS – PAST IMPERFECT

Edited by Catherine A.M. Clarke

Medieval Cityscapes Today This book explores medieval cityscapes within the modern urban environment, using place as a catalyst to forge connections between past and present, and investigating timely questions concerning theoretical approaches to medieval urban heritage, as well as the presentation and interpretation of that heritage for public audiences. Written by a specialist in literary and cultural history with substantial experience of multi-disciplinary research into medieval towns, Medieval Cityscapes Today teases out stories and strata of meaning from the urban landscape, bringing techniques of close reading to the material fabric of the city, as well as textual artefacts associated with it. Deriving from the author’s own experience in urban regeneration and heritage interpretation projects, case studies – such as the development of a public art installation at a medieval ruin site and the development of a pavement marker trail – provide ways into exploring broader questions about relationships between the medieval and modern city. Catherine A. M. Clarke is Chair in the History of People, Place and Community, Institute of Historical Research, University of London. She has led major research and heritage interpretation projects in Chester and Swansea, and has published widely on place, power, and identity in medieval Britain. ARC - Past Imperfect February 2019 122 pages, 8 b/w illustration Paperback 111 x 181 mm ISBN 978 16 4189 112 7 e-ISBN 978 16 4189 113 4 €14.95 / £11.95 / $14.95

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Preface: Today 1. Rouen: Introduction 2. Chester: The Medieval City and Other Monsters 3. Swansea: Seeing the Invisible Cityâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Spatial Encounters Past and Present 4. Winchester: Afterword Further Reading

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AMSTERDAM UNIVERSITY PRESS ARC HUMANITIES PRESS – PAST IMPERFECT

By Susan Oosthuizen

The Emergence of the English This book takes a critical approach to the assumption that the origins of the English can be found in fifth- and sixthcentury immigration from north-west Europe. It begins by evaluating the primary evidence, and discussing the value of ethnicity in historical explanation. The author proposes an alternative explanatory model that sets short- and medium-term events and processes in the context of the longue durée, illustrated here through the agricultural landscape. She concludes that the origins of the English should rather be sought among late RomanoBritish communities, evolving, adapting, and innovating in a new, post-imperial context. Though focusing on England between the fifth and seventh centuries, this volume explores themes of universal interest—the role of immigration in cultural transformation; the importance of the landscape as a mnemonic for cultural change; and the utility of a common property rights approach as an analytical tool. Susan Oosthuizen is Professor of Medieval Archaeology at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge, the Society of Antiquaries and the Royal Historical Society. ARC – Past Imperfect February 2019 150 pages, 7 b/w illustration Paperback 111 x 181 mm ISBN 978 16 4189 127 1 e-ISBN 978 16 4189 128 8 €14.95 / £11.95 / $14.95

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1. Introduction 2. What Can Reliably Be Said To Be Known about Late Antique and Early Medieval England? 3. Ethnicity as an explanation 4. Another Perspective Index

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AMSTERDAM UNIVERSITY PRESS ARC HUMANITIES PRESS – EARLY SOCIAL PERFORMANCE

By Max Harris

Christ on a Donkey – Palm Sunday, Triumphal Entries, and Blasphemous Pageants At once scholarly and entertaining, Christ on a Donkey is a study of Palm Sunday processions and related royal entries as both spectacular instances of processional theater and highly charged interpretations of the biblical narrative to which they claim allegiance. Harris’s narrative ranges from ancient Jerusalem to modern-day Bolivia, from imperial white horses to wheeled wooden images of Christ on a donkey, from veneration to iconoclasm, and from Christ to Ivan the Terrible. A curious theme emerges: those embodied representations of Christ’s entry into Jerusalem that were labeled blasphemous, idolatrous, or superstitious by those in power were arguably most faithful to the biblical narrative of Palm Sunday, while those staged with the purpose of exalting those in power and celebrating military triumph were arguably blasphemous pageants.

Max Harris is the author of five previous books, including Sacred Folly: A New History of the Feast of Fools (2011) which won the Otto Grundler prize. He has served as Executive Director of the Wisconsin Humanities Council and has taught at Yale University and the University of Virginia. ARC - Early Social Performance February 2019 292 pages, 36 b/w illustration Hardback 234 x 156 mm ISBN 978 16 4189 287 2 e-ISBN 978 16 4189 289 6 €99.00 / £89.00 / $115.00

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Introduction: From Pomp to Donkeys Part One: Pomp I. Triumphal Entries: From Charlemagne to Oliver Cromwell 1.

Charlemagne’s Birthday Pomp

Kings Dead or Alive

Warrior Popes

Mud, Plague, and the Lord Protector

II. Palm Sunday Processions: From Egeria to Peter the Great 5.

Palms of Victory

Exalted and Eccentric Images

Crusaders, Patriarchs, and Emperors

The Horse with Donkey’s Ears

Part Two: Parodies / James Nayler and Jesus of Nazareth 9.

James Nayler’s Royal Progress

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Jesus on a Jackass

Part Three: Donkeys I. A Scarcity of Donkeys: From Udine to El Alto 11.

Under Muslim Rule

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White Horses and Imagined Donkeys

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Live Donkeys at Last

II. Wooden Christs on Wooden Donkeys: From Augsburg to Chiquitos 14.

An Image of the Lord Seated on an Ass

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The Lord God Belongs to the Butchers

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The Persecution of the Palmesel

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Baroque Splendor and Catholic Enlightenment

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The Donkey that Walked on Water

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Survivals and Revivals

Conclusion: Christ Dismembered and the Bombing of Lübeck

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