Book Review: 'Imagining the Passion' Through Devotional Art

CORNEL CHRONICLE 
By Daniel Aloi

Cynthia Robinson reveals the interrelation of late medieval Iberian religious practices and culture among coexisting sects in her new book, “Imagining the Passion in a Multi-Confessional Castile: The Virgin, Christ, Devotions, and Images in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries” (2013, Penn State University Press). By placing Iberian devotional art in the context of devotional practice of the period – the so-called “Three Confessions” (Judaism, Christianity and Islam) of Iberian religious culture – Robinson provides evidence of the impact of each religion on the others. [link]