Faithin Omaha eBook Collection

Miraculous images are the focus for an exploration of art and devotion in Renaissance Italy.

In Renaissance Florence, certain paintings and sculptures of the Virgin Mary and Christ were believed to have extraordinary efficacy in activating potent sacred

An unprecedented art-historical account of practices of image ingestion from ancient Egypt to the twentieth century Eating and drinking images may seem like an

This volume explores the late medieval and early modern periods from the perspective of objects. While the agency of things has been studied in anthropology and

In this book, Diana Bullen Presciutti explores how images of miracles performed by mendicant saints-reviving dead children, redeeming the unjustly convicted, me