Adam G Beaver » bibliography

Replicated Jerusalems

Adam — Mon, 12 May 2008 16:12:01 +0000

For some time now, I’ve been compiling bibliography on European replicas of Near Eastern Holy Places. Below the jump I’ve pasted a stab at all that I’ve collected thus far; please feel free to email me or to comment on this post to add things I might have missed!

Holy Sepulchers

Sarah Blick & Rita Tekippe, Art and Architecture of Late Medieval Pilgrimage in Northern Europe and the British Isles, 2 vols., Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions, 104 (Leiden: Brill, 2005).
Genevi?®ve Bresc-Bautier, ‚ÄúLes imitations du Saint-Sepulcre de Jerusalem (IXe‚ÄìXVe si?®cles): Arch?©ologie d‚Äôune d?©votion,‚Äù Revue d‚ÄôHistoire de la Spiritualit?© 50 (1974): 319‚Äì342.
N.C. Brooks, The Sepulchre of Christ in Art and Liturgy, University of Illinois Studies in Language and Literature, 7.2 (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1921).
Ludwig H. Heydenreich, ‚ÄúDie Cappella Rucellai von San Pancrazio in Florenz,‚Äù in Millard Meiss, ed., De artibus opuscula XL: Essays in Honor of Erwin Panofsky, 2 vols. (New York, NY: New York University Press, 1961), 1:219‚Äì229.
F.W. Kent, ‚ÄúThe Letters Genuine and Spurious of Giovanni Rucellai,‚Äù Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 37 (1974): 342‚Äì349.
Richard Krautheimer, ‚ÄúIntroduction to an ‚ÄòIconography of Mediaeval Architecture,‚Äô‚Äù Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 5 (1942): 1‚Äì33.
Justin E. A. Kroesen, The Sepulchrum Domini through the Ages: Its Form and Function (Leuven: Peeters, 2000).
Colin Morris, The Sepulchre of Christ and the Medieval West: From the Beginning to 1600 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005).
———-, ‚ÄúBringing the Holy Sepulchre to the West: S. Stefano, Bologna, from the Fifth to the Twentieth Century,‚Äù in R.N. Swanson, ed., The Church Retrospective, Studies in Church History, 33 (Woodbridge: Boydell Press for The Ecclesiastical History Society, 1997), 31‚Äì60.
Damiano Neri, Il S. Sepulcro riprodotto in Occidente (Jerusalem: Franciscan Printing Press, 1971).
Robert Ousterhout, ‚ÄúLoca Sancta and the Architectural Responses to Pilgrimage,‚Äù in idem, ed., The Blessings of Pilgrimage (Urbana/Chicago, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1990), 108‚Äì124.
———-, ‚ÄúThe Church of Santo Stefano: A ‚ÄòJerusalem‚Äô in Bologna,‚Äù Gesta 20 (1981): 311‚Äì321.

[It is interesting to note that the same pattern of replication occurred in medieval Ethiopia, as well; see Marilyn E. Heldman, ‚ÄúArchitectural Symbolism, Sacred Geography and the Ethiopian Church,‚Äù Journal of Religion in Africa 22 (1992): 222‚Äì241.]

Via Crucis & Sacri Monti

Amilcare Barbero, ed., Atlante dei sacri monti, calvari e complessi devozionali europei (Novara: Istituto geografico De Agostini, 2001).
Philippe Baud, Chemin de croix: les origines d‚Äôune d?©votion populaire (Paris: M?©diaspaul, 1995).
David Freedberg, The Power of Images: Studies in the History and Theory of Response (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1989), 192‚Äì245.
Sergio Gensini, ed., La ‚ÄúGerusalemme‚Äù di San Vivaldo e i Sacri Monti in Europa (Firenze‚ÄìSan Vivaldo, 11‚Äì13 settembre 1986), Centro internazionale di studi ‚ÄúLa ‚ÄòGerusalemme‚Äô di San Vivaldo,‚Äô Montaione, 1 (Montaione: Comune di Montaione, 1989).
Ces?°reo Gil Atrio, ‚ÄúEspa?±a, ¬øcu?±a del Viacrucis?‚Äù Archivo Ibero-Americano 11[n.s.] (1951): 63‚Äì92.
Pedro Jos?© Pradillo y Esteban, V??a Crucis, Calvarios y Sacromontes: arte y religiosidad popular en la contrareforma. Guadalajara, un caso excepcional (Guadalajara: Diputaci??n Provincial de Guadalajara, 1996).
Kathryn Rudy, ‚ÄúNorthern European Visual Responses to Holy Land Pilgrimage, 1453‚Äì1550,‚Äù PhD dissertation, Art History, Columbia University, 2001.
Am?©d?©e Teetaert da Zedelgem, ‚ÄúAper?ßu historique sur la d?©votion au chemin de la croix,‚Äù Collectanea franciscana 19 (1949): 45‚Äì142.
Herbert Thurston, The Stations of the Cross: An Account of their History and Devotional Purpose (London: Burns & Oates, 1906).
Dorino Tuniz, ed., I Sacri Monti nella cultura religiosa e artistica del Nord Italia (Cinisello Balsamo [Milan]: San Paolo, 2005).

Carmelite Deserts

Trevor Johnson, ‚ÄúGardening for God: Carmelite Deserts and the Sacralisation of Natural Space in Counter-Reformation Spain,‚Äù in Will Coster & Andrew Spicer, eds., Sacred Space in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005), 193‚Äì210.
J.M. Mu?±oz Jim?©nez, ‚ÄúYermos y Sacromontes: Itinerarios de V??a Crucis en los Desiertos Carmelitanos,‚Äù in Los caminos y el arte. Actas, VI Congreso Espan?µl de Historia del Arte C.E.H.A., Santiago de Compostela, 16‚Äì20 de junio de 1986, 3 vols., Cursos y congresos da Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 54 (Santiago de Compostela: Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 1989), 3:171‚Äì182.

Benito Arias Montano online

Adam — Sun, 11 May 2008 23:51:57 +0000

Readers familiar with my dissertation will know that the Spanish antiquarian Benito Arias Montano (1527‚Äì1598) and his theory that Spain was settled by Nebuchadnezzar’s Jewish captives play an important role. Now you, too, can read Arias Montano from the comfort of home, as the Spanish Culture Ministry’s Biblioteca Virtual del Patrimonio Bibliogr?°fico (BVPB) has put most of his works online! (Click here to be taken to an all-Arias-Montano index.) The BVPB is, of course, a wonderful resource for many other Golden Age Spanish authors‚Äîjust another reason to study the Spanish Renaissance…

Current reading…

Adam — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 22:39:57 +0000

One of the pleasures of my new job as Assistant Director of Undergraduate Studies is that I now have a good excuse for reading widely beyond my own field–since most of our undergraduates specialize in modern American and international history, I have good reason to explore those fields and make sure that I’m current with their interests. And since two of my primary duties are (1) to advise new students on course selection, and (2) to connect the senior thesis writers in my seminar with individual advisers, I can also call it my “job” to read books by our faculty. I’ve recently read Maya Jasanoff’s Edge of Empire: Lives, Culture, and Conquest in the East 1750‚Äì1850,¹ and I’m now working through (only six years after the rest of the world!) Louis Menand’s The Metaphysical Club.² (Alright, so Menand doesn’t technically belong to our department–but he often teaches our students!) One of the most surprising aspects of my job is how frequently I meet undergraduates who simply aren’t aware of the kinds of research and writing that we do here in our department, and I’m embarrassed to say that I’m probably guilty of the same–but no longer!

Maya Jasanoff, Edge of Empire: Lives, Culture, and Conquest in the East 1750‚Äì1850 (New York, NY: Vintage Books, 2005).
Louis Menand, The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America (New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001).

Spanish bibliographies

Adam — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 22:29:30 +0000

As the lone Hispanist in my history department, I’m often asked for references to Spanish history texts. I frequently answer these queries by turning to one of the most valuable resources for early modern Spanish history on the web: Jim Amelang’s copious and au courant bibliographies, hosted on his website at the Universidad Aut??noma de Madrid. The bibliographies range across topics from witchcraft to anthropology to urban history, and are not to be missed!

You give me fever

Adam — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 22:08:42 +0000

My friend and Fulbright colleague Matt Crawford (see his website here) has just published his first article, on the basis of research he’s done in Madrid and Seville for his dissertation on the production of quinine in the Spanish empire in the eighteenth century:

Matthew James Crawford, “‘Para desterrar las dudas y adulteraciones’: Scientific Expertise and the Attempts to Make a Better Bark for the Royal Monopoly of Quina (1751-1790),” Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies 8:2 (2007): 193-212.

Quinine (quina in Spanish) was a tremendously important commodity, and the subject of so much scientific interest, because it was used to treat malaria.

Matt, currently a PhD candidate at the University of California, San Diego, is one of a new breed of Spanish historians of science determined to dispel the “Black Legend” that surrounds Spain’s Scientific Revolution–the notion that, essentially, Spain never had a scientific revolution because the repressive Church and Inquisition stifled the sort of intellectual inquiry that was necessary to produce it. Congratulations, Matt, on a very interesting contribution to a good cause!

Where to find a good book in Zaragoza…

Adam — Fri, 18 May 2007 22:39:07 +0000

It’s just come to my attention that my friend Mar??a Tausiet will be presenting her latest book, Abracadabra Omnipotens: Magia urbana en Zaragoza en la Edad Moderna (Siglo XXI de Espa?±a Editores, 2007) on 8 June in Zaragoza.

Mar??a is one of the finest Spanish historians of religion, magic, and witchcraft around, and I’m sure that her new book will be a bestseller in Spain. If you are interested in reading some of her work in English, you might try her articles

“Witchcraft as Metaphor: Infanticide and its Translations in Arag??n in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries,” in Stuart Clark, ed., Languages of Witchcraft. Narrative, Ideology and Meaning in Early Modern Culture (New York: St Martin’s Press, 2001), 179-195.
“Patronage of Angels & Combat of Demons: Good versus Evil in 17th Century Spain,” in Peter Marshall & Alexandra Washam, eds., Angels in the Early Modern World (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), 233-255.

Now go out and buy Mar??a’s book!