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Book SynopsisIn colorful detail, Calvin Lane explores the dynamic intersection between reform movements and everyday Christian practice from ca. 1000 to ca. 1800. Lowering the artificial boundaries between “the Middle Ages,” “the Reformation,” and “the Enlightenment,” Lane brings to life a series of reform programs each of which developed new sensibilities about what it meant to live the Christian life. Along this tour, Lane discusses music, art, pilgrimage, relics, architecture, heresy, martyrdom, patterns of personal prayer, changes in marriage and family life, connections between church bodies and governing authorities, and certainly worship. The thread that he finds running from the Benedictine revival in the eleventh century to the pietistic movements of the eighteenth is a passionate desire to return to a primitive era of Christianity, a time of imagined apostolic authenticity, even purity. In accessible language, he introduces readers to Cistercians and Calvinists, Franciscans and Jesuits, Lutherans and Jansenists, Moravians and Methodists to name but a few of the many reform movements studied in this book. Although Lane highlights their diversity, he argues that each movement rooted its characteristic practice – their spirituality – in an imaginative recovery of the apostolic life.Trade ReviewA superb study of Christian devotion and spirituality in medieval, Reformation and early modern times. Breaking through the old periodization paradigm, this fresh narrative focuses on how people prayed, believed, worshiped, and practiced the faith in an age of change and reform. Highly recommended! -- Timothy George, Beeson Divinity School, Samford UniversityCalvin Lane’s Spirituality and Reformproposes an attractive alternative to traditional narratives and timelines of premodern Western Christian reform. . . . Spirituality and Reform is an appealing interpretation of premodern Western Christianity and a useful survey of recent topical literature. It continues and advances current scholarly trends with accessible and memorable structure and prose. It may not single-handedly bring about the deconstruction of tedious historiographical barriers, but it certainly makes a clear case for why such deconstruction is necessary. * Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture *A superb study of Christian devotion and spirituality in medieval, Reformation and early modern times. Breaking through the old periodization paradigm, this fresh narrative focuses on how people prayed, believed, worshiped, and practiced the faith in an age of change and reform. Highly recommended! -- Timothy George, Beeson Divinity School, Samford UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction: Spirituality & Reform1.The Spiritual Landscape: The Mass in the Middle Ages2.The Spiritual Landscape: Mediating the Holy in the Middle Ages3.The Spirituality of High Medieval Reform Movements: Popes & Monks4.Medieval Mysticism & Reform5.The Spirituality of Late Medieval Reform Movements: Pushing the Boundaries6.Sixteenth-Century Reformations: The Sacraments7.Sixteenth-Century Reformations: Preaching, Sacred Space, & Music8.Sixteenth-Century Reformations: Pastoral Care & the Life Cycle9.Sixteenth-Century Reformations: Early Modern Catholicism10.Spirituality & the Encounter: Opportunities for a Primitive Church11.Spirituality & the Bloody Theater: Martyrdom in the Middle Ages and Early Modernity12.Religions of the Heart: New Movements of the Seventeenth & Eighteenth CenturiesConclusion: Post Tenebras Lux?Appendix 1: TimelineAppendix 2: Shortlist of Primary Sources in English

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Book SynopsisChapter 1: Editors' Introduction.- Part: one.- Chapter 2: Collective Labour of Care: Building Feminist Infrastructures in the Post-Dictatorial Spanish State.- Chapter 3: Feminist Dissidence in Manuela Ballester Vilaseca's Poetry.- Chapter 4: Maruja Mallo and Concha Méndez: Creative Friendship, Female Embodiment, and Ludic Space.- Chapter 5: Fósiles of the Feminine: Clara Janés, Rosa Biadiu, and the Vestiges of Time.- Chapter 6: In Deep with Ouka Leele.- Chapter 7: Symbolic Reparations, Buchonas, and Gore Capitalism in Mayra Martell's Gore (2017) and Chulada (2018).- Chapter 8: Gender and Violence in Lorena Wolffer's Work.- Creative Intervention.- Chapter 9: Reflective Visual Mediations: Women Artists, Researchers, and their Positionings.- Part Two.- Chapter 10: A todo el mundo le gustaría que su madre fuera una estrella de rock ' [Everyone would like their mother to be a rockstar ']: Music, Mourning, and the (absent) Maternal Voice in Todos están muertos.- Chapter 11: A Domestic Revolution: Feminist Awakening in the Home in Rosario Castellanos's Lección de cocina' (1971) and Antonella Sudasassi's El despertar de las hormigas (2019).- Chapter 12: Retracing Ripples: Water, Idleness, and Guilt in Lucrecia Martel's Salta Trilogy.- Chapter 13: Crafting New Roads to and Spaces for Womanhood in Leticia Dolera's Requisitos para ser una persona normal (2015) and Vida perfecta (2019-21).- Chapter 14: Alternative TV Voices: Jane the Virgin (CW, 2014-19).- Chapter 15: Panels of the Self: Self-referentiality, Memory, and Speaking Out on Traumatic Abuse in Sole Otero's Poncho Fue (2017).- Final Remarks.- Chapter 16: Epilogue.

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Book Synopsis Chapter 1: Introduction: Unifying Orality, Literacy and Art.- Chapter 2: ‘The Great Awakening’: The Greek Revolution in Art and Orality.- Chapter 3: ‘A Curious Mixture’: Medieval Art and the Question of Orality.- Chapter 4: ‘The Style Most Perfect’: Tribal Art and Orality.- Chapter 5: ‘An Enviable Freedom’: Child Art and Orality.- Chapter 6: ‘A Pure and Elementary State’: Outsider Art and Orality.- Chapter 7: ‘The Kingdom Where Each of Us Reigns’: Julian Jaynes, Art and Orality.- Chapter 8: ‘Primordially Eternal’: Modern Art and Orality.- Chapter 9: Conclusion: The Future of Art and Orality.

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