Discovering the riches of the word
Subtitle: religious reading in late medieval and early modern Europe
By: edited by Sabrina Corbellini, Margriet Hoogvliet and Bart Ramakers
Series: Intersections : interdisciplinary studies in early modern culture -- VOLUME 38
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 367
ISBN-13: 9789004290389; 9789004290396
Subjects: Christian literature; History and criticism; Christians; Books and reading; Christianity and literature
Description: The contributions to 'Discovering the riches of the word. Religious reading in late Medieval and early modern Europe' offer an innovative approach to the study of religious reading from a long term and geographically broad perspective, covering the period from the thirteenth to the seventeenth century and with a specific focus on the fifteenth and the sixteenth centuries. Challenging traditional research paradigms, the contributions argue that religious reading in this "long fifteenth century" should be described in terms of continuity. They make clear that in spite of confessional divides, numerous reading practices continued to exist among medieval and early modern readers, as well as among Catholics and Protestants, and that the two groups in certain cases even shared the same religious texts.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.