Byron Ellsworth Hamann
Byron Ellsworth Hamann is an editor of Grey Room and author of The Translations of Nebrija: Language, Culture, and Circulation in the Early Modern World (2015) and Bad Christians, New Spains: Muslims, Catholics, and Native Americans in a Mediterratlantic World (2020).
The printed black rectangle, representing a pair of cloth pendants seen and unseen, provides a key for understanding this mass-produced ancien régime image: its enacted uses, and its affective powers.
