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October 22, 2008
Frédéric Cousinié Images et Méditation au XVIIe Siècle Rennes, France: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2007. 240 pp.; 59 b/w ills. Paper €22.00 (9782753505148)
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Frédéric Cousinié’s Images et Méditation au XVIIe Siècle is a collection of six essays that focus on the relationship between devotional treatises and visual images in seventeenth-century France. This book has neither a formal introduction nor a conclusion, but in the last section (22–24) of the first essay, Cousinié provides an overview in which he briefly summarizes the questions raised in each essay. To best appreciate the book, the reader will need, in addition to...