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Cécile Fromont, Sarah M. Guérin, Carlo Taviani - Crossroads Africa, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2027

Crossroads Africa

African Engagement in the Making of Early Modernity

Av Cécile Fromont, Sarah M. Guérin, Carlo Taviani

Del 10 i serien I Tatti Research Series

568 kr

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Crossroads Africa explores the role of Africa and Africans in shaping the early modern world (c. 1300–1700). These essays identify and analyze key spaces, objects, and ideas that emerged on the continent as it engaged with the early modern world and that continue to inform the circulation of people, goods, and ideas today. Focusing on a set of related geographies—West Africa, its Atlantic archipelagos, Ethiopia, and the Italian peninsula—this collection examines the exchange of materials, including ivory, coral, glass beads, textiles, and metalwork; the circulation of knowledge and technologies; enslavement and the formation of creolized communities and cultures; and representations and perceptions of power. Throughout the book, art historians, archaeologists, and historians innovatively and productively cross historiographical and geographical boundaries, building the emerging field of early modern African studies.
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Cécile Fromont is Professor of the History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University and the author of The Art of Conversion: Christian Visual Culture in the Kingdom of Kongo and Images on a Mission in Early Modern Kongo and Angola. Sarah M. Guérin is Associate Professor of Medieval Art at the University of Pennsylvania. Her first book, French Gothic Ivories: Material Theologies and the Sculptor’s Craft was awarded the John Nicholas Brown Prize, and she served on the steering committee for the award-winning exhibition Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time: Art, Culture and Exchange across Medieval Saharan Africa. Carlo Taviani is Associate Professor of Early Modern History at the Università degli Studi di Teramo and a fellow of the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome. He is the author of The Making of the Modern Corporation: The Casa di San Giorgio and Its Legacy (1446–1720).

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