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The sacred home in Renaissance Italy /

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 obj...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Brundin, Abigail (Autor), Howard, Deborah, 1946- (Autor), Laven, Mary, 1969- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2018.
Edición:First edition.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; The Sacred Home in Renaissance Italy; Copyright; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures; List of Plates; List of Maps; List of Abbreviations; Notes on Transcriptions; Introduction; THE HOME IN RENAISSANCE ITALY; RENAISSANCE RELIGION; THE HOLY HOUSEHOLD; APPROACHING THE SACRED HOME; 1: Regional Perspectives; THE VENETO; THE MARCHE; NAPLES; CONCLUSION; 2: House and Home; THE HOLY HOME; THE FAMIGLIA; DOMESTIC SPACE; THE HOUSE INSIDE AND OUT; THE RUSTIC HOME; HOUSE INTERIORS; ARTEFACTS AND THEIR ARRANGEMENT; THE MIRROR OF THE SOUL; CONCLUSION; 3: Prayer and Meditation.
  • PREPARING TO PRAYSPACES OF PRAYER; TIMES FOR PRAYER; VOCAL PRAYER; PRAYING THE ROSARY; ILLICIT PRAYER; MENTAL PRAYER; MEDITATION; CONCLUSION; 4: Sacred Stuff; CATERINA'S ALTAR; DEVOTION FOR SALE; INSIDE THE CASSONE; PAWNED GOODS; THE STUFF OF THE HOME; CONCLUSION; 5: Reading at Home; READERS AT WORK; WHO COULD 'READ'? EXPANDING OUR CATEGORIES OF ANALYSIS; THE UNREAD TEXT; WHAT TO READ? PATTERNS OF DEVOTIONAL BOOK CONSUMPTION; READING MANUSCRIPTS; CONCLUSION; 6: The Devotional Eye; READING THE PICTURE; SEEING THE DIVINE; Corporeal Seeing; Spiritual Seeing; Intellectual Seeing.
  • MATERIALIZING THE IMAGEAGENCY AND VALUE; THE ROLE OF MATERIALS; LEVELS OF REALITY; THE THIRD DIMENSION; TEXT AND IMAGE; DEPICTING THE UNKNOWABLE; CONCLUSION; 7: Printing and Piety; LOCAL PRINTING; VICENZA; MACERATA; NAPLES; CONCLUSION; 8: Miracles; THE MADONNA OF THE HOME; THE RISE OF THE MIRACULOUS; CHILDREN IN DANGER; FERTILITY TALES; THE HOME AT RISK; THE POLITICS OF THE MIRACULOUS; CONCLUSION; 9: Thresholds; THE DOORWAY; IN AND OUT OF THE HOME; THE FLYING HOUSE; SACRED AND PROFANE; CONCLUSION; Conclusion; Bibliography; PRIMARY TEXTS; SECONDARY TEXTS; Index.