Domestic Devotions in the Early Modern World

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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 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 are 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. Contents Acknowledgments Figures and Tables Notes on the Editors Notes on the Contributors Introduction Part 1 Complicating the Sacred Space: Private and Public Chapter 1 The Brazilian House in the Eighteenth Century: Devotion at Home Chapter 2 When the Home Becomes a Shrine: Public Prayers in Private Houses among the Ottoman Jews Part 2 Confessional Confrontation Chapter 3 Psalm-Singing at Home: The Case of Etienne Mathieu, a Burgundian Protestant Chapter 4 Between Domestic and Public: Johann Leisentrit’s (1527–1586) Instructions for the Sick and Dying of Upper Lusatia Chapter 5 The Moriscos’ Artistic Domestic Devotions Viewed through Christian Eyes in Early Modern Iberia Chapter 6 The Unwritten Ritual: The Duality of Religion in Sixteenth-Century Chosŏn Korea Part 3 Family Life Chapter 7 Between Home and Sufi Convent: Devotional Book Use in Early Modern Damascus Chapter 8 Commemoration of the Prophet’s Birthday as a Domestic Ritual in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Damascus Chapter 9 Prayers at the Nuptial Bed: Spiritual Guidance on Consummation in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Epithalamia Part 4 The Materiality of Devotion Chapter 10 Amulets and the Material Interface of Beliefs in Seventeenth-Century Prague Burgher Homes Chapter 11 Experimenting with Relics: Laypeople, Knowledge and Relics in Seventeenth-Century Spain Chapter 12 Style as Substance: Literary Ink Painting and Buddhist Practice in Late Ming Dynasty China Part 5 Prayer and Meditation Chapter 13 ‘Thou Hast Made this Bed Thine Altar’: John Donne’s Sheets Chapter 14 The Book as Shrine, the Badge as Bookmark: Religious Badges and Pilgrims’ Souvenirs in Devotional Manuscripts Part 6 Gendering Devotion Chapter 15 Living Spaces, Communal Places: Early Modern Jewish Homes and Religious Devotions Chapter 16 Birth, Death and Reincarnation in the Life of a Fifteenth-Century Tibetan Princess Index Nominum