Domestic devotions in the early modern world / edited by Marco Faini, Alessia Meneghin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Faini, Marco, editor.

Series:

Intersections (Boston, Mass.) ; v. 59/2.

Intersections ; 59/2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Families--Religious life.

Families.

Spiritual life.

Home--Religious aspects.

Home.

Physical Description:

xxii, 356 : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2019.

Summary:

This volume sets out to explore the world of domestic devotions and is premised on the assumption that the home was a central space of religious practice and experience throughout the early modern world. The contributions to this book, which deal with themes dating from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century, tell of the intimate relationship between humans and the sacred within the walls of the home. The volume demonstrates that the home cannot be studied in isolation: the seventeen essays, that encompass religious history, the histories of art and architecture, material culture, literary history, and social and cultural history, instead point individually and collectively to the porosity of the home and its connectedness with other institutions and broader communities.

Contents:

Part 1 Complicating the Sacred Space: Private and Public

1 The Brazilian House in the Eighteenth Century: Devotion at Home p. 33 / Cristina Osswald

2 When the Home Becomes a Shrine: Public Prayers in Private Houses among the Ottoman Jews p. 55 / Dotan Arad

Part 2 Confessional Confrontation

3 Psalm-Singing at Home: The Case of Etienne Mathieu, a Burgundian Protestant p. 71 / Kathleen Ashley

4 Between Domestic and Public: Johann Leisentrit's (1527-1586) Instructions for the Sick and Dying of Upper Lusatia p. 82 / Martin Christ

5 The Moriscos' Artistic Domestic Devotions Viewed through Christian Eyes in Early Modern Iberia p. 107 / Borja Franco Llopis and Francisco Javier Moreno Díaz del Campo

6 The Unwritten Ritual: The Duality of Religion in Sixteenth-Century Choson Korea p. 126 / Soyeon Kim

Part 3 Family Life

7 Between Home and Sufi Convent: Devotional Book Use in Early Modem Damascus p. 147 / Torsten Wollina

8 Commemoration of the Prophet's Birthday as a Domestic Ritual in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Damascus p. 167 / Marion H. Katz

9 Prayers at the Nuptial Bed: Spiritual Guidance on Consummation in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Epithalamia p. 182 / Jungyoon Yang

Part 4 The Materiality of Devotion

10 Amulets and the Material Interface of Beliefs in Seventeenth-Century Prague Burgher Homes p. 209 / Suzanna Ivanic

11 Experimenting with Relics: Laypeople, Knowledge and Relics in Seventeenth-Century Spain p. 226 / Igor Sosa Mayor

12 Style as Substance: Literary Ink Painting and Buddhist Practice in Late Ming Dynasty China p. 244 / Kathleen M. Ryor

Part 5 Prayer and Meditation

13 'Thou Hast Made this Bed Thine Altar': John Donne's Sheets p. 269 / Hester Lees-Jeffries

14 The Book as Shrine, the Badge as Bookmark: Religious Badges and Pilgrims' Souvenirs in Devotional Manuscripts p. 288 / Hanneke van Asperen

Part 6 Gendering Devotion

15 Living Spaces, Communal Places: Early Modem Jewish Homes and Religious Devotions p. 315 / Debra Kaplan

16 Birth, Death and Reincarnation in the Life of a Fifteenth-Century Tibetan Princess p. 334 / Hildegard Diemberger.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Domestic devotions in the early modern world

ISBN:

9789004342545

9004342540

OCLC:

1035756617