Domestic Devotions in the Early Modern World

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-34254-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 59/2, 358 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 839 g

Reihe: Intersections

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 sixteen 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.

Contributors: Dotan Arad, Kathleen Ashley, Martin Christ, Hildegard Diemberger, Marco Faini, Suzanna Ivanic, Debra Kaplan, Marion H. Katz, Soyeon Kim, Hester Lees-Jeffries, Borja Franco Llopis, Alessia Meneghin, Francisco J. Moreno Díaz del Campo, Cristina Osswald, Kathleen M. Ryor, Igor Sosa Mayor, Hanneke van Asperen, Torsten Wollina, and Jungyoon Yang.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Faini, Marco

Meneghin, Alessia

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Renaissance, Manierismus
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Museumskunde, Materielle Kultur, Erinnerungskultur
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Figures and Tables

Notes on the Editors

Notes on the Contributors

Introduction

Marco Faini and Alessia Meneghin

Part 1: Complicating the Sacred Space: Private and Public

1 The Brazilian House in the Eighteenth Century: Devotion at Home

Cristina Osswald

2 When the Home Becomes a Shrine: Public Prayers in Private Houses among the Ottoman Jews

Dotan Arad

Part 2: Confessional Confrontation

3 Psalm-Singing at Home: The Case of Etienne Mathieu, a Burgundian Protestant

Kathleen Ashley

4 Between Domestic and Public: Johann Leisentrit’s (1527–1586) Instructions for the Sick and Dying of Upper Lusatia

Martin Christ

5 The Moriscos’ Artistic Domestic Devotions Viewed through Christian Eyes in Early Modern Iberia

Borja Franco Llopis and Francisco Javier Moreno Díaz del Campo

6 The Unwritten Ritual: The Duality of Religion in Sixteenth-Century Choson Korea

Soyeon Kim

Part 3: Family Life

7 Between Home and Sufi Convent: Devotional Book Use in Early Modern Damascus

Torsten Wollina

8 Commemoration of the Prophet’s Birthday as a Domestic Ritual in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Damascus

Marion H. Katz

9 Prayers at the Nuptial Bed: Spiritual Guidance on Consummation in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Epithalamia

Jungyoon Yang

Part 4: The Materiality of Devotion

10 Amulets and the Material Interface of Beliefs in Seventeenth-Century Prague Burgher Homes

Suzanna Ivanic

11 Experimenting with Relics: Laypeople, Knowledge and Relics in Seventeenth-Century Spain

Igor Sosa Mayor

12 Style as Substance: Literary Ink Painting and Buddhist Practice in Late Ming Dynasty China

Kathleen M. Ryor

Part 5: Prayer and Meditation

13 ‘Thou Hast Made this Bed Thine Altar’: John Donne’s Sheets

Hester Lees-Jeffries

14 The Book as Shrine, the Badge as Bookmark: Religious Badges and Pilgrims’ Souvenirs in Devotional Manuscripts

Hanneke van Asperen

Part 6: Gendering Devotion

15 Living Spaces, Communal Places: Early Modern Jewish Homes and Religious Devotions

Debra Kaplan

16 Birth, Death and Reincarnation in the Life of a Fifteenth-Century Tibetan Princess

Hildegard Diemberger

Index Nominum

Über Autor(innen)

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.