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Book SynopsisThis 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 Ivanič, 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.
Trade Review“Domestic Devotions in the Early Modern World offers an array of impressive research that will prove enriching to all scholars of early modern history.” Gary Gibbs, Roanoke College. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 74, No. 3 (Fall 2021), pp. 1023–1025.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 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 Chosŏn 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 Ivanič 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
