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Author:   Marco Faini ,  Alessia Meneghin
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   59/2
Weight:   0.834kg
ISBN:  

9789004342545

ISBN 10:   9004342540
Pages:   358
Publication Date:   06 December 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

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 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

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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.

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Marco Faini is Marie Skłodowska 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.

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