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Christian materiality between East and West: Notes of a Capuchin among the Christians of the Ottoman Empire
- Abstract:
- This essay presents the Théâtre de la Turquie, a work compiled by an anonymous Capuchin missionary (‘Michel Febvre’) based in the Ottoman Empire in the late seventeenth century. Published in French in 1682, the Théâtre offers an intriguing glimpse of how Catholic missionaries used religious materiality as a prism through which to make sense of the religious diversity of the Ottoman world. Moreover, writers like Febvre also drew on the evidence of Eastern Christian religious practices as a way of defending Roman Catholicism against its Protestant critics. The essay uses the Théâtre to reflect on the geography, chronology and afterlives of the ‘paradox of Christian materiality’ described in Bynum’s 2011 study.
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Grant:
- 638578
- Publisher:
- Amsterdam University Press
- Host title:
- Religious Materiality in the Early Modern World
- Pages:
- 103-118
- Chapter number:
- 5
- Series:
- Visual and Material Culture, 1300-1700
- Place of publication:
- Amsterdam
- Publication date:
- 2019-11-04
- Acceptance date:
- 2018-11-30
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- 9789048535422
- ISBN:
- 9789462984653
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- Copyright holder:
- John-Paul A. Ghobrial
- Copyright date:
- 2019
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- © The authors / Amsterdam University Press B.V., Amsterdam 2019
- Notes:
- This is the accepted manuscript version of the chapter. The final version is available online from Amsterdam University Press at https://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789462984653
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