Ex Voto : Votive Giving Across Cultures.
- NY : Bard Graduate Center, (c)2016.
- 1 online resource (322 pages)
- Bard Graduate Center - Cultural Histories of the Material World .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Series Editor's Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Ex-Voto as Material Culture -- Ittai Weinryb; One. Fractured Narratives: Writing the Biography of a Votive Offering -- Jessica Hughes; Two. Between the Body and the Divine: Healing Votives from Classical and Hellenistic Greece -- Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis; Three. Italian Ex-Votos and "Pro-Anima" Images in the Late Middle Ages -- Michele Bacci; Four. Renaissance Perspectives on Classical Antique Votive Practices -- Megan Holmes; Five. Humble Offerings: Votive Panel Paintings in Renaissance Italy -- Fredrika Jacobs. Six. Donated before the Gods: Popular Display of Edo-Period Ema Tablets -- Hilary K. SnowSeven. Presence and Narrative in the Ex-Votos of New Spain -- Clara Bargellini; Eight. Vows on Water: Ship Ex-Votos as Things, Metaphors, and Mediators of Communality -- Hannah Baader; Nine. Nazr Necessities: Votive Practices and Objects in Iranian Muharram Ceremonies -- Christiane Gruber; Ten. Procreative Giving: Votive Wombs and the Study of Ex-Votos -- Ittai Weinryb; Contributors; Index.