Domestic devotions in the early modern world / / edited by Marco Faini, Alessia Meneghin.

• Superior document: Intersections: interdisciplinary studies in early modern culture ; Volume 59/2-2018
• TeilnehmendeR: Faini, Marco,; Meneghin, Alessia, 1976-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden : : Brill,, [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Intersections (Boston, Mass.) ; Volume 59/2-2018.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxii, 356 pages) :; illustrations.

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 seventeen 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.

Table of Contents

The Brazilian house in the eighteenth century: devotion at home / Cristina Osswald -- When the home becomes a shrine : public prayers in private houses among the Ottoman Jews / Dotan Arad -- Psalm-singing at home: the case of Etienne Mathieu, a Burgundian Protestant / Kathleen Ashley -- Between domestic and public: Johann Leisentrit's (1527-1586) instructions for the sick and dying of Upper Lusatia / Martin Christ -- The Moriscos' artistic domestic devotions viewed through Christian eyes in early modern Iberia / Borja Franco Llopis, Francisco Javier Moreno Díaz del Campo -- The unwritten ritual: the duality of religion in sixteenth-century Choso?n Korea / Soyeon Kim -- Between home and Sufi convent: devotional book use in early modern Damascus / Torsten Wollina -- Commemoration of the Prophet's birthday as a domestic ritual in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Damascus / Marion H. Katz -- Prayers at the nuptial bed: spiritual guidance on consummation in seventeenth-century Dutch epithalamia / Jungyoon Yang -- Amulets and the material interface of beliefs in seventeenth-century Prague Burgher homes / Suzanna Ivanić -- Experimenting with relics: laypeople, knowledge and relics in seventeenth-century Spain / Igor Sosa Mayor -- Style as substance: literary ink painting and Buddhist practice in late Ming dynasty China / Kathleen M. Ryor -- 'Thou hast made this bed thine altar': John Donne's sheets / Hester Lees-Jeffries -- The book as shrine, the badge as bookmark: religious badges and pilgrims' souvenirs in devotional manuscripts / Hanneke van Asperen -- Living spaces, communal places: early modern Jewish homes and religious devotions / Debra Kaplan -- Birth, death and reincarnation in the life of a fifteenth-century Tibetan princess / Hildegard Diemberger.