Religion and the Medieval and Early Modern Global Marketplace

231 Pages·2021·18.017 MB·English

by  Scott Oldenburg, Kristin M. S. Bezio

RELIGION AND THE MEDIEVAL
AND EARLY MODERN GLOBAL
MARKETPLACE
Religion and the Medieval and Early Modern Global Marketplace brings together
scholars from a variety of disciplines to examine the intersection, conflict, and
confluence of religion and the market before 1700.
Each chapter analyzes the unique interplay of faith and economy in a dif-
ferent locale: Syria, Ethiopia, France, Iceland, India, Peru, and beyond. In ten
case studies, specialists of archaeology, art history, social and economic history,
religious studies, and critical theory address issues of secularization, tolerance,
colonialism, and race with a fresh focus. They chart the tensions between reli-
gious and economic thought in specific locales or texts, the complex ways that
religion and economy interacted with one another, and the way in which matters
of faith, economy, and race converge in religious images of the pre- and early
modern periods. Considering the intersection of faith and economy, the volume
questions the legacy of early modern economic and spiritual exceptionalism, and
the ways in which prosperity still entangles itself with righteousness.
The interdisciplinary nature means that this volume is the perfect resource for
advanced undergraduates, postgraduates, and scholars working across multiple
areas including history, literature, politics, art history, global studies, philosophy,
and gender studies in the medieval and early modern periods.
Scott Oldenburg specializes in early modern literature and culture at Tulane Uni-
versity. He is the author of Alien Albion: Literature and Immigration in Early Modern
England and A Weaver-Poet and the Plague: Labor, Poverty, and the Household in Shake-
speare’s London as well as articles on various early modern topics.
Kristin M. S. Bezio is an Associate Professor at the University of Richmond.
Publications include Staging Power in Tudor and Stuart English History Plays; “Munday
I Sweare Shalbee a Hollidaye” in Études Anglaises; and William Shakespeare & 21st
Century Culture, Politics, and Leadership with Anthony Russell.

RELIGION AND THE
MEDIEVAL AND EARLY
MODERN GLOBAL
MARKETPLACE
Edited by Scott Oldenburg and
Kristin M. S. Bezio
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Names: Oldenburg, Scott K., 1969- editor. | Bezio, Kristin M. S., editor.
Title: Religion and the medieval and early modern global marketplace /
edited by Scott Oldenburg and Kristin M. S. Bezio.
Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022. | Includes
bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2021020281 | ISBN 9780367536749 (hbk) | ISBN
9780367536756 (pbk) | ISBN 9781003082842 (ebk)
Subjects: LCSH: Economics--Religious aspects--History. |
Religion--Economic
aspects--History. | Commerce--Religious aspects--History.
Classification: LCC HB72 .R45132 2022 | DDC 330--dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021020281
ISBN: 978-0-367-53674-9 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-0-367-53675-6 (pbk)
ISBN: 978-1-003-08284-2 (ebk)
DOI: 10.4324/9781003082842
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CONTENTS
List of figures vii
List of contributors ix
Acknowledgements xii
Introduction 1
Scott Oldenburg
1 Render unto Caesar: Religious thought, trade, and secular
authority in Groningen during the Dutch Golden Age 9
David Beeler
2 The market that binds us: Religious exchange in medieval
Syria-Palestine 32
Ian R. Simpson
3 King Enrique IV of Castilla and the christian underpinnings
of his letter on trade fairs 54
Manuel J. Ortuño
4 Material and providential economies in Montaigne’s Essais 74
Sara Aponte-Olivieri
5 Barbarous Customes: Mughal Might and Anglican
Virtue in the Journals of Thomas Roe and Edward Terry 87
Maya Mathur
vi Contents
6 Moving images: Marketing the sacred in viceregal rural Peru 106
Sara González Castrejón
7 Sanctity, anti-Judaism, and the early market economy 125
Anne L. Williams
8 Timeo hiberos et cruces ferentes: Jesuit missiology as Iberian
colonialism in early modern Abyssinia 151
Luis Salés
9 Racialized sacred spaces: Commodifications of race in
Þingeyrar, Iceland (c.1470-1700) 172
Lorenz A. Hindrichsen
10 The Miracle of the Black Leg: Medical knowledge,
race + territorialization 199
Cecilio M. Cooper
Epilogue 214
Kristin M. S. Bezio
Index 217
FIGURES
6.1 Our Lady of Candlemas of Cayma (Arequipa) 108
6.2 Jacinto Carbajal, Virgen of Cayma Worshipped by Natives, 1780.
Church of San Miguel Arcángel de Cayma (Arequipa) 110
6.3 San Pedro de Naván (Oyón) 119
7.1 Bartolo di Fredi, Adoration of the Magi, panel from an altarpiece,
1385-1388. Tempera on panel, 195 × 163 cm. Pinacoteca
Nazionale, Siena 127
7.2 Pupil of Meister Francke, Adoration of the Magi, Preetz Altarpiece,
c. 1435, Preetz Abbey, Schleswig-Holstein. Inv. CC-BY-SA,
Nationalmuseet, Copenhagen 129
7.3 Gherardo Starnina, Adoration of the Magi, from Florence, first
quarter of the 15th century. Tempera on wood, 30.5 × 57.5 cm.
Inv. 149, Escallier Bequest, 1857, Musée de la Chartreuse, Douai 130
7.4 Circle of the Master of the Fröndenberger Marienretabels
(after Conrad von Soest), Blankenberch Retabel, right wing, inside:
Adoration of the Magi (detail), c. 1430/40. Oil on wood,
154.5 × 396.0 cm (overall). Inv. 6 WKV, LWL-Museum für
Kunst und Kultur, Münster (Westfälisches Landesmuseum)/
loan from the Westfälischer Kunstverein 131
7.5 Giotto di Bondone, Adoration of the Magi, c. 1320. 45.1 x 43.8 cm.
John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1911, Accession Number 11.126.1,
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 132
7.6 Giotto di Bondone, Charity, 1303-05, south wall,
Scrovegni Chapel, Padua 133
7.7 Giotto di Bondone, Envy, 1303-05, north wall,
Scrovegni Chapel, Padua 134
viii Figures
7.8 Personification of the Vice of Avarice, Cathedral of Notre Dame,
Amiens, west façade, central portal, 1220-1236 135
7.9 Master Francke, Adoration of the Magi, St. Thomas (Englandfahrer)
Altarpiece, 1424. Tempera on oak, 91.8 × 84.3 cm. Inv. HK-493,
Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg 136
9.1 Left panel of the altarpiece at Þingeyrar Church, produced in
Nottingham (c. 1470) 176
9.2 Illustration from the baptismal font at Þingeyrar Church,
donated by Laurits Gottrup in 1697 177
9.3 Interior view of the apse at Þingeyrar Church 178
9.4 The baptism of the Ethiopian chamberlain from Icones Biblicae
by Matthäus Merian (1625) 181
10.1 Fernando del Rincón, Milagros de los santos médicos Cosme y Damián,
1510, Oil on panel, 188 × 155 cm, P02549 204
10.2 Jaime Huguet, Predella of the altarpiece of the saints Abdón
and Senén, 1460. Miracle of the gangrenous leg, San Cosme and
San Damián, Tempera painting of egg on board, 301 × 225 cm 205
CONTRIBUTORS
Sara Aponte-Olivieri completed a Ph.D. in French literature from the Université
Grenoble Alpes and has an upcoming book titled La Prudence d’après Michel de
Montaigne et Baltasar Gracián. She currently teaches Spanish at Adelphi University.
David Beeler earned his Ph.D. in history from the University of South Florida
in 2019. He is currently an adjunct instructor of Humanities at the University
of South Florida and an adjunct instructor of history at St. Petersburg College.
Kristin M. S. Bezio is an Associate Professor at the University of Richmond.
Publications include Staging Power in Tudor and Stuart English History Plays;
“Munday I Sweare Shalbee a Hollidaye” in  Études Anglaises; and  William
Shakespeare & 21st Century Culture, Politics, and Leadership with Anthony Russell.
Sara González Castrejón is a Researcher at the Faculty of Communication
Sciences, Tourism, and Psychology at Universidad de San Martín de Porres
(Lima, Peru). She specializes in Andean rural religious heritage. Her publications
include:  Templos virreinales de la sierra de Oyón y Huaura: estudio artístico e
iconográfico (Lima: USMP & Obispado de Huacho, 2019), ‘Las iglesias virreinales
de los valles de los ríos Huaura y Checras: patrimonio religioso y turismo en
la sierra de Lima’ (Turismo y Patrimonio 12, 2018), “Las efigies de los Incas en
el Ms. 1551 de la Biblioteca Angelica (Roma) y los ‘cuadernos de mano’ de
Francisco Fernández de Córdova,” in A. Vázquez Varela, F. Eissa-Barroso
and S. Espelt-Bombin, Élites, representación y redes atlánticas en la Hispanoamérica
moderna  (Michoacan, Mexico: El Colegio de Michoacán, A.C., 2017),
and “Making Pre-Hispanic History in Viceregal Peru: Colonial ‘Portraits’ and
Painted Dynasties of the Inca Kings,” History of Humanities, Volume 1, Number
2, Fall 2016.