Domestic Devotions in Early Modern Italy

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-34256-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 59/1, 442 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 998 g

Reihe: Intersections

Domestic Devotions in Early Modern Italy illuminates the vibrancy of spiritual beliefs and practices which profoundly shaped family life in this era. Scholarship on Catholicism has tended to focus on institutions, but the home was the site of religious instruction and reading, prayer and meditation, communal worship, multi-sensory devotions, contemplation of religious images and the performance of rituals, as well as extraordinary events such as miracles. Drawing on a wide range of sources, this volume affirms the central place of the household to spiritual life and reveals the myriad ways in which devotion met domestic needs. The seventeen essays encompass religious history, the histories of art and architecture, material culture, musicology, literary history, and social and cultural history.

Contributors are Erminia Ardissino, Michele Bacci, Michael J. Brody, Giorgio Caravale, Maya Corry, Remi Chiu, Sabrina Corbellini, Stefano Dall’Aglio, Marco Faini, Iain Fenlon, Irene Galandra Cooper, Jane Garnett, Joanna Kostylo, Alessia Meneghin, Margaret A. Morse, Elisa Novi Chavarria, Gervase Rosser, Zuzanna Sarnecka, Katherine Tycz, and Valeria Viola.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Corry, Maya

Faini, Marco

Meneghin, Alessia

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Katholizismus, Römisch-Katholische Kirche
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Religionssoziologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionssoziologie und -psychologie, Spiritualität, Mystik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

List of Illustrations

Notes on the Editors

Notes on the Contributors

Introduction

Maya Corry, Marco Faini and Alessia Meneghin

Part 1: The Unbounded Nature of Domestic Space

1 Singing on the Street and in the Home in Times of Pestilence: Lessons from the 1576–78 Plague of Milan

Remi Chiu

2 The Ex Voto between Domestic and Public Space: From Personal Testimony to Collective Memory

Jane Garnett and Gervase Rosser

3 Spaces for Domestic Devotion in the Noble Residences of Palermo in the Age of Catholic Reform

Valeria Viola

4 Music and Domestic Devotion in the Age of Reform

Iain Fenlon

Part 2: Domesticating the Divine

5 Domestic Portraiture in Early Modern Venice: Devotion to Family and Faith

Margaret A. Morse

6 Domestic Religion and Connected Spaces: Isabella della Rovere, Princess of Bisignano (1552–1619)

Elisa Novi Chavarria

7 “And the Word Dwelt amongst Us”: Experiencing the Nativity in the Italian Renaissance Home

Zuzanna Sarnecka

Part 3: The Materiality of Devotion

8 Religious Subjects on Sixteenth-Century Deruta Piatti da Pompa

Michael J. Brody

9 Investigating the ‘Case’ of the Agnus Dei in Sixteenth-Century Italian Homes

Irene Galandra Cooper

10 Material Prayers and Maternity in Early Modern Italy: Signed, Sealed, Delivered

Katherine M. Tycz

11 Devotional Panels as Sites of Intercultural Exchange

Michele Bacci

Part 4: Prayer and Meditation

12 Creating Domestic Sacred Space: Religious Reading in Late Medieval and Early Modern Italy

Sabrina Corbellini

13 Delight in Painted Companions: Shaping the Soul from Birth in Early Modern Italy

Maya Corry

14 Literary and Visual Forms of a Domestic Devotion: The Rosary in Renaissance Italy

Erminia Ardissino

Part 5: Conflict and Control

15 Domestic Prayers and Miracles in Renaissance Italy: The Case of Savonarola and His Cult

Stefano Dall’Aglio

16 Private and Public Devotion in Late Renaissance Italy: The Role of Church Censorship

Giorgio Caravale

17 Contested Devotions: Space, Identities and Religious Dissent in the Apothecary’s Home

Joanna Kostylo

Index Nominum

Über Autor(innen)

Maya Corry is College Lecturer in Early Modern History at Oriel College, University of Oxford. She works at the intersection of history and the history of art, and has published on gender, religion, the body and Leonardo.

Marco Faini is Marie Sklodowska Curie Fellow at the Universities of Venice and Toronto. He was Andrew W. Mellon Fellow at Villa I Tatti. The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies and Research Associate at the Department of Italian, University of Cambridge.

Alessia Meneghin is Ahmanson Fellow at Villa I Tatti. The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies in Florence. She has published a monograph on the Misericordie, and many articles on the Arti Minori, and on Renaissance Florentine economy and society.