Tangible religion : materiality of domestic cult practices from antiquity to early modern era / editors, Ria Berg, Antonella Coralini, Anu Kaisa Koponen & Reima Välimäki.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Berg, Ria, editor.

Coralini, Antonella, editor.

Koponen, Anu Kaisa, editor.

Välimäki, Reima, editor.

European Association of Archaeologists. Annual Meeting 2017 : Maastricht, Nederland)

Conference Name:

Tangible Religion (Conference) (2014 : Rome, Italy)

Series:

Acta Instituti Romani Finlandiae ; v. 49.

Acta Instituti Romani Finlandiae, 0538-2270 ; vol. 49

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rites and ceremonies--Europe--History--Congresses.

Rites and ceremonies.

Religious articles--Europe--Congresses.

Religious articles.

Material culture--Europe--Religious aspects--Congresses.

Material culture.

Excavations (Archaeology)--Europe--Congresses.

Excavations (Archaeology).

History.

Europe.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

281 pages : illustrations (some color), plans (some color) ; 30 cm.

Place of Publication:

Roma : Institutum Romanum Finlandiae, 2021.

Summary:

Ria Berg, Reima Välimäki, Anu Kaisa Koponen, Antonella Coralini, Introduction: Tangible Religion from Antiquity to the Early Modern Period -- Meritxell Ferrer, More than Dwellings. Women, Rituals and Homes in Western Sicily (8th-5th Centuries BCE) -- Simona Perna, What is in a Vase? Materiality and Semiotics of Cinerary Vases in Egyptian Stone and Vase Shapes in Roman Domestic and Funerary Contexts -- Aude Durand & William Van Andringa, To Live or not to Live. The Lares and the Transfer of the Domicilium in a Roman Town -- Maddalena Bassani, Gods and Cult Objects in Roman Houses. Notes for a Methodological Research -- Ria Berg, Instruments & Amulets. Pompeian Hairpins and Women's Domestic Ritual -- Antonella Coralini, Materialising Divine Presences. Hercules domesticus Revisited -- Anu Kaisa Koponen, Egyptian Cults in Pompeian Domestic Wall Paintings -- Maddalena Bassani, Sacra privata in Central Italy. New Data from an Archaeological Research -- Claire Renkin, Making the Sacred Palpable. How Material Objects Enhanced Lay Devotional Practices in Late Medieval Europe -- Reima Välimäki, More Powerful than Mere Matter? Forbidden but Practiced Material Religion among the Late Medieval German Waldensians -- Kirsi Majantie, Venerated and Didactic Walls. Devotional Images on Fifteenth- to Sixteenth-Century Tile Stoves in Northern Europe -- David Gaimster, New Faith, New Home, New Stove. The Role of the Hanseatic Ceramic Trade in the Transmission of New Confessional and Political Identities in the Northern European Home, c. 1500-1600.

Notes:

Papers presented at the conference held in Rome, Italy, November 27-28, 2014; includes also selected papers from another conference held in Maastricht, Netherlands, August 30-Spetember 3, 2017.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9788854911642

885491164X

OCLC:

1267434101