Summary: At the turn of the sixteenth century, the notion of world was dramatically being reshaped, leaving no aspect of human experience untouched. The Nomadic Object: The Challenge of World for Early Modern Religious Art examines how sacred art and artefacts responded to the demands of a world stage in the age of reform. Essays by leading scholars explore how religious objects resulting from cross-cultural contact defied national and confessional categories and were re-contextualised in a global framework via their collection, exchange, production, management, and circulation. In dialogue with current discourses, papers address issues of idolatry, translation, materiality, value, and the agency of networks. The Nomadic Object demonstrates the significance of religious systems, from overseas logistics to philosophical underpinnings, for a global art history.

Contents: 1. 'Idols from India' - Visual Discernment and the Imagination of Space and Time, circa 1600, Christine Göttler. 2. Arabic Inscriptions in the Service of the Church - An Italian Textile Evoking an Early Christian Past?, Denise-Marie Teece. 3. Materiality and Idolatry - Roman Imaginations of Saint Rose of Lima, Tristan Weddigen. 4. Ut Pictura Lex - Jan David, S.J., on Natural Law and the Global Reach of Christian Images, Walter S. Melion. 5. Translating the Sacred - The Peripatetic Print in the Florentine Codex, Mexico (1575-1577), Jeanette Favrot Peterson. 6. The Value of Misinterpreting in Cultural Exchange - The Transfer of Christian Prints from the West to Japan, Yoriko Kobayashi-Sato. 7. Propagatio Imaginum - The Translated Images of Our Lady of Foy, Ralph Dekoninck. 8. 'Mass' Produced Devotional Paintings in the Andes - Mobility, Flexibility, Visual Habitus, Evonne Levy. 9. Gems of Sacred Kingship - Faceting Anglo-Mughal Relations around 1600, Christiane Hille. 10. Cultured Materiality in Early Modern Art - Feather Mosaics in Sixteenth-century Collections, Margit Kern. 11. Making Marvels - Faking Matter - Mediating Virtus between the Bezoar and Goa Stones and Their Containers, Beate Fricke. 12. Naked Bones, Empty Caskets, and a Faceless Bust - Christian Relics and Reliquaries between Europe and Asia during Early Modern Globalisation, Urte Krass. 13. Virgin Skulls - The Travels of St. Ursula's Companions in the New World, Rose Marie San Juan. 14. Relic or Icon? The Place and Function of Imperial Regalia, Akira Akiyama. 15. Relics Management - Building a Spiritual Empire in Asia (Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries), Ines G. Županov. 16. The Seven Sorrows of the Virgin - Spreading a New Cult via Dynastic Networks, Dagmar Eichberger. 17. Early Modern Incense Boats - Religion, Trade, and Cultural Exchange, Jeffrey L. Collins and Meredith Martin. 18. Journeys, Real and Imaginary, in China and Europe - Cartography, Landscape, and Travel around 1600, James Clifton. 19. Arrivals at Distant Lands - Artful Letters and Entangled Mobilities in the Indian Ocean Littoral, Dipti Khera. (Intersections: Interdisciplinary Studies in Early Modern Culture, 53)

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