Domestic Devotions in Early Modern Italy

✍ Scribed by Corry Maya e Marco Faini Alessia Meneghin eds

• Publisher: Brill
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 468
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

Contributors are Erminia Ardissino, Michele Bacci, Michael J. Brody, Giorgio Caravale, Maya Corry, Remi Chiu, Sabrina Corbellini, Stefano Dall’Aglio, Marco Faini, Iain Fenlon, Irene Galandra Cooper, Jane Garnett, Joanna Kostylo, Alessia Meneghin, Margaret A. Morse, Elisa Novi Chavarria, Gervase Rosser, Zuzanna Sarnecka, Katherine Tycz, and Valeria Viola.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgments
Illustrations
Notes on the Editors
Notes on the Contributors
Introduction
Part 1 The Unbounded Nature of Domestic Space
Chapter 1 Singing on the Street and in the Home in Times of Pestilence: Lessons from the 1576–78 Plague of Milan
Chapter 2 The Ex Voto between Domestic and Public Space: From Personal Testimony to Collective Memory
Chapter 3 Spaces for Domestic Devotion in the Noble Residences of Palermo in the Age of CatholicReform
Chapter 4 Music and Domestic Devotion in the Age of Reform
Part 2 Domesticating the Divine
Chapter 5 Domestic Portraiture in Early Modern Venice: Devotion to Family and Faith
Chapter 6 Domestic Religion and Connected Spaces: Isabella della Rovere, Princess of Bisignano (1552–1619)
Chapter 7 “And the Word Dwelt amongst Us”: Experiencing the Nativity in the Italian Renaissance Home
Part 3 The Materiality of Devotion
Chapter 8 Religious Subjects on Sixteenth-Century Deruta Piatti da Pompa
Chapter 9 Investigating the ‘Case’ of the Agnus Dei in Sixteenth-Century Italian Homes
Chapter 10 Material Prayers and Maternity in Early Modern Italy: Signed, Sealed, Delivered
Chapter 11 Devotional Panels as Sites of Intercultural Exchange
Part 4 Prayer and Meditation
Chapter 12 Creating Domestic Sacred Space: Religious Reading in Late Medieval and Early Modern Italy
Chapter 13 Delight in Painted Companions: Shaping the Soul from Birth in Early Modern Italy
Chapter 14 Literary and Visual Forms of a Domestic Devotion: The Rosary in Renaissance Italy
Part 5 Conflict and Control
Chapter 15 Domestic Prayers and Miracles in Renaissance Italy: The Case of Savonarola and His Cult
Chapter 16 Private and Public Devotion in Late Renaissance Italy: The Role of Church Censorship
Chapter 17 Contested Devotions: Space, Identities and Religious Dissent in the Apothecary’s Home
Index Nominum

✦ Subjects

religion, spirituality