How Long to Read Spectacular Miracles

How Long Does it Take to Read Spectacular Miracles?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 16 minutes to read Spectacular Miracles by Jane Garnett

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Winner of the ACE / Mercers' Book Award 2014 Spectacular Miracles confronts an enduring Western belief in the supernatural power of images: that a statue or painting of the Madonna can fly through the air, speak, weep, or produce miraculous cures. Although contrary to widely held assumptions, the cults of particular paintings and statues held to be miraculous have persisted beyond the middle ages into the present, even in a modern European city such as Genoa, the primary focus of this book. Drawing upon rich documentation from northwest Italy and elsewhere, Spectacular Miracles shows how these images “work” in a range of historical contexts. Jane Garnett and Gervase Rosser vividly evoke ritual animation of the image and the phenomenology of the beholder’s experience. These images, they demonstrate, have the subversive potential of the miraculous image to bypass clerical and secular authority, a power enhanced by reproducibility—devotion is hard to control when a copy of a venerated image is held to carry the same supernatural potential as the original, even when in a digital form mediated by the Internet. Engaging with the history, anthropology, and visual culture of images and religion, Spectacular Miracles is a convincing study of the continuing power of faith and art.

How long is Spectacular Miracles?

Spectacular Miracles by Jane Garnett is 313 pages long, and a total of 79,189 words.

This makes it 106% the length of the average book. It also has 97% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Spectacular Miracles Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 12 minutes to read Spectacular Miracles aloud.

What Reading Level is Spectacular Miracles?

Spectacular Miracles is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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