Domestic Devotions in Early Modern Italy
Publisher: Brill
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 468
ISBN-13: 9789004375871; 9789004342569
Subjects: History; Religion & beliefs; History of religion
Description: Domestic Devotions in Early Modern Italy illuminates the vibrancy of spiritual beliefs and practices which profoundly shaped family life in this era. Scholarship on Catholicism has tended to focus on institutions, but the home was the site of religious instruction and reading, prayer and meditation, communal worship, multi-sensory devotions, contemplation of religious images and the performance of rituals, as well as extraordinary events such as miracles. Drawing on a wide range of sources, this volume affirms the central place of the household to spiritual life and reveals the myriad ways in which devotion met domestic needs. The seventeen essays encompass religious history, the histories of art and architecture, material culture, musicology, literary history, and social and cultural history.
Notes: FP7 Ideas: European Research Council 319475 FP7 SC39

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