Domestic Devotions in the Early Modern World

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.

“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.

• AcknowledgmentsFigures and TablesNotes on the EditorsNotes on the ContributorsIntroductionMarco Faini and Alessia MeneghinPart 1: Complicating the Sacred Space: Private and Public1 The Brazilian House in the Eighteenth Century: Devotion at HomeCristina Osswald2 When the Home Becomes a Shrine: Public Prayers in Private Houses among the Ottoman JewsDotan AradPart 2: Confessional Confrontation3 Psalm-Singing at Home: The Case of Etienne Mathieu, a Burgundian ProtestantKathleen Ashley4 Between Domestic and Public: Johann Leisentrit’s (1527–1586) Instructions for the Sick and Dying of Upper LusatiaMartin Christ5 The Moriscos’ Artistic Domestic Devotions Viewed through Christian Eyes in Early Modern IberiaBorja Franco Llopis and Francisco Javier Moreno Díaz del Campo6 The Unwritten Ritual: The Duality of Religion in Sixteenth-Century Chosŏn KoreaSoyeon KimPart 3: Family Life7 Between Home and Sufi Convent: Devotional Book Use in Early Modern DamascusTorsten Wollina8 Commemoration of the Prophet’s Birthday as a Domestic Ritual in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century DamascusMarion H. Katz9 Prayers at the Nuptial Bed: Spiritual Guidance on Consummation in Seventeenth-Century Dutch EpithalamiaJungyoon YangPart 4: The Materiality of Devotion10 Amulets and the Material Interface of Beliefs in Seventeenth-Century Prague Burgher HomesSuzanna Ivanič11 Experimenting with Relics: Laypeople, Knowledge and Relics in Seventeenth-Century SpainIgor Sosa Mayor12 Style as Substance: Literary Ink Painting and Buddhist Practice in Late Ming Dynasty ChinaKathleen M. RyorPart 5: Prayer and Meditation13 ‘Thou Hast Made this Bed Thine Altar’: John Donne’s SheetsHester Lees-Jeffries14 The Book as Shrine, the Badge as Bookmark: Religious Badges and Pilgrims’ Souvenirs in Devotional ManuscriptsHanneke van AsperenPart 6: Gendering Devotion15 Living Spaces, Communal Places: Early Modern Jewish Homes and Religious DevotionsDebra Kaplan16 Birth, Death and Reincarnation in the Life of a Fifteenth-Century Tibetan PrincessHildegard DiembergerIndex Nominum