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Quid est secretum? : visual representation of secrets in early modern Europe, 1500-1700
- Title
- Quid est secretum? : visual representation of secrets in early modern Europe, 1500-1700 / edited by Ralph Dekoninck, Agnès Guiderdoni, Walter S. Melion.
- Author
- Lovis Corinth Colloquium (8th : 2018 : Emory University), author.
- Publication
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2020]
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- Description
- xlvi, 734 pages : illustrations (some color); 25 cm.
- Summary
- "Quid est secretum? Visual Representation of Secrets in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1700 is the companion volume to Intersections 65.1, Quid est sacramentum? Visual Representation of Sacred Mysteries in Early Modern Europe, 1400-1700. Whereas the latter volume focused on sacramental mysteries, the current one examines a wider range of secret subjects. The book examines how secret knowledge was represented visually in ways that both revealed and concealed the true nature of that knowledge, giving and yet impeding access to it. In the early modern period, the discursive and symbolical sites for the representation of secrets were closely related to epistemic changes that transformed conceptions of the transmissibility of knowledge"--
- Series Statement
- Intersections, 1568-1181 ; volume 65/2
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- History.
- Note
- "Lovis Corinth Colloquium VIII."
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- What did they see? : science and religion in the anatomical theatres of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / Peter G.F. Eversmann -- Roger de Piles and the secret of grace / Caecilie Weissert -- Secret est à louer : secrets and secrecy in French Baroque cartography, 1580-1640 / Tom Conley.
- Call Number
- JQE 21-645
- ISBN
- 9789004432253
- 9004432256
- LCCN
- 2020023185
- OCLC
- 1157354091
- Conference
- Lovis Corinth Colloquium (8th : 2018 : Emory University), author.
- Title
- Quid est secretum? : visual representation of secrets in early modern Europe, 1500-1700 / edited by Ralph Dekoninck, Agnès Guiderdoni, Walter S. Melion.
- Publisher
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2020]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Intersections, 1568-1181 ; volume 65/2
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Dekoninck, Ralph, editor.Guiderdoni, Agnès, 1966- editor.Melion, Walter S., editor.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Quid est secretum? Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2020] 9789004432260 (DLC) 2020023186
- Research Call Number
- JQE 21-645