How did religion colour daily life in the Italian Renaissance home? Peering into the privacy of family rites of passage ¿ childbirth, marriage, and death ¿ the authors expose patterns of piety that helped individuals to confront both the dangers and delights of everyday life, using such material objects as books, artworks, jewellery, and relics.
Abigail Brundin specializes in the literature and culture of Renaissance and Early Modern Italy. She has written on many aspects of the period, from female convents to the Grand Tour, and is above all known for her work on the poet Vittoria Colonna, as the translator of the Sonnets for Michelangelo (2005) and author of Vittoria Colonna and the Spiritual Poetics of the Italian Reformation (2008). A Fellow of St Catharine's College, she has taught at the University of Cambridge since 2002 and is currently chair of the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages. Deborah Howard is an architectural historian whose principal research interests revolve around the art and architecture of Venice and the Veneto, seen from an interdisciplinary perspective. Her books include Venice & the East (2000), Sound & Space in Renaissance Venice (2009, with L. Moretti) and Venice Disputed (2013). She is a Professor Emerita at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of St John's College. She was elected to the British Academy in 2010. Mary Laven has published widely on the social and cultural history of religion. She is the author of Virgins of Venice: Enclosed Lives and Broken Vows in the Renaissance Convent (2002) and Mission to China: Matteo Ricci and the Jesuit Encounter with the East (2011). More recently, her attention has turned to material culture and she has been involved in two major exhibition projects at the Fitzwilliam Museum. She is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Jesus College.
Show moreHow did religion colour daily life in the Italian Renaissance home? Peering into the privacy of family rites of passage ¿ childbirth, marriage, and death ¿ the authors expose patterns of piety that helped individuals to confront both the dangers and delights of everyday life, using such material objects as books, artworks, jewellery, and relics.
Abigail Brundin specializes in the literature and culture of Renaissance and Early Modern Italy. She has written on many aspects of the period, from female convents to the Grand Tour, and is above all known for her work on the poet Vittoria Colonna, as the translator of the Sonnets for Michelangelo (2005) and author of Vittoria Colonna and the Spiritual Poetics of the Italian Reformation (2008). A Fellow of St Catharine's College, she has taught at the University of Cambridge since 2002 and is currently chair of the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages. Deborah Howard is an architectural historian whose principal research interests revolve around the art and architecture of Venice and the Veneto, seen from an interdisciplinary perspective. Her books include Venice & the East (2000), Sound & Space in Renaissance Venice (2009, with L. Moretti) and Venice Disputed (2013). She is a Professor Emerita at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of St John's College. She was elected to the British Academy in 2010. Mary Laven has published widely on the social and cultural history of religion. She is the author of Virgins of Venice: Enclosed Lives and Broken Vows in the Renaissance Convent (2002) and Mission to China: Matteo Ricci and the Jesuit Encounter with the East (2011). More recently, her attention has turned to material culture and she has been involved in two major exhibition projects at the Fitzwilliam Museum. She is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Jesus College.
Show moreIntroduction
1: Regional perspectives
2: House and home
3: Prayer and meditation
4: Sacred Stuff
5: Reading at home
6: The Devotional Eye
7: Printing and Piety
8: Miracles
9: Thresholds
Conclusion
Abigail Brundin specializes in the literature and culture of
Renaissance and Early Modern Italy. She has written on many aspects
of the period, from female convents to the Grand Tour, and is above
all known for her work on the poet Vittoria Colonna, as the
translator of the Sonnets for Michelangelo (2005) and author of
Vittoria Colonna and the Spiritual Poetics of the Italian
Reformation (2008). A Fellow of St Catharine's College, she has
taught
at the University of Cambridge since 2002 and is currently chair of
the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages. Deborah Howard is an
architectural historian whose principal research interests revolve
around the art and
architecture of Venice and the Veneto, seen from an
interdisciplinary perspective. Her books include Venice & the East
(2000), Sound & Space in Renaissance Venice (2009, with L. Moretti)
and Venice Disputed (2013). She is a Professor Emerita at the
University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of St John's College. She was
elected to the British Academy in 2010. Mary Laven has published
widely on the social and cultural history of religion. She is the
author
of Virgins of Venice: Enclosed Lives and Broken Vows in the
Renaissance Convent (2002) and Mission to China: Matteo Ricci and
the Jesuit Encounter with the East (2011). More recently, her
attention has turned to material culture and she has been
involved in two major exhibition projects at the Fitzwilliam
Museum. She is Professor of Early Modern History at the University
of Cambridge and a Fellow of Jesus College.
The Sacred Home in Renaissance Italy articulates the thesis of a
"domestication" of lay devotion with panache and will surely remain
an indispensable guide. It will fall to future scholarship to
integrate its insights more fully with the social and institutional
contexts that conditioned domestic religion. In the end, the term
"Renaissance religion" may be too limited or imprecise to capture
the complexities of an era of cultural conflict and political
transformation.
*Wietse de Boer, Journal of Modern History*
This study is both enlightening and encouraging in its use of
familiar and unfamiliar resources, and shows how to draw compelling
conclusions from difficult questions.
*Jennifer Mara Desilva, Ball State University, Comptes Rendus*
The amount of material in the book is astonishing ... Brundin,
Howard and Laven consciously seek to compensate for long-standing
blind spots in Italian Renaissance scholarship. They investigate
rural as well as urban areas, indigents as well as elites, local
artists from foreign backgrounds, men as well as women (especially
important in a book about domestic life) ... The grat power of
material objects lies in their capacity to encompass multiple uses
and meanings, to cross boundaries, to embrace contradictions. The
book shines most when it draws these out.
*Emily Michelson, Times Higher Education Supplement*
This is an impressive book, the product of a substantial research
project conducted by a team of scholars, and it demonstrates the
value of collaborative work in fields that do not often undertake
it. By combining their and their postdoctoral fellows' research
expertise in Italian literature, art history, and history, and
linguistic skills in several Italian dialects, they have created a
wide-ranging study of domestic devotion in the Venetian terrafirma,
the Marche, and Naples.
*Celeste McNamara, The Catholic Historical Review*
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