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{"title":"“And the Word Dwelt amongst Us”: Experiencing the Nativity in the Italian Renaissance Home","authors":"Zuzanna Sarnecka","doi":"10.1163/9789004375871_009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004375871_009","url":null,"abstract":"This fragment from the biography of St Francis shows the origins of the practice of re-enactments of the Nativity.2 The poverello from Assisi visited Bethlehem, the historical birthplace of Christ, and asked Pope Honorius III for approval for his pious project of recreating the Incarnation. St Francis wished to see with his ‘corporeal eyes’ the Christ Child lying in the manger guarded by ox and ass, deprived of any luxuries. In 1223 he shared his ambition to celebrate the birth of Christ with a certain Giovanni from Greccio, who assisted him in fulfilling that spiritual desire. People from the small, Umbrian village spared no efforts in order to make manifest the saint’s vision, in such a way that ‘Greccio was transformed into a seemingly new Bethlehem’, ‘et quasi nova Bethlehem de Graecio facta est’.3 The miracle that took place during the mass at Greccio,","PeriodicalId":144231,"journal":{"name":"Domestic Devotions in Early Modern Italy","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124742271","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Devotional Panels as Sites of Intercultural Exchange","authors":"M. Bacci","doi":"10.1163/9789004375871_013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004375871_013","url":null,"abstract":"The use of painted panels as visual counterparts to an individual’s or a family group’s practice of prayer admittedly was very common in the modern era, yet it would be misleading to consider such a phenomenon as the outcome of a very recent process and as something typical of Western religious experience. Indeed, painted panels of various forms and diminutive dimensions were used in different Christian traditions and in various periods from Late Antiquity through the Late Middle Ages and, in early modern times, they happened to be perceived as objects that could be easily involved in multifarious devotional practices, regardless of their owner’s confessional or denominational identity.","PeriodicalId":144231,"journal":{"name":"Domestic Devotions in Early Modern Italy","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123151050","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Domestic Portraiture in Early Modern Venice: Devotion to Family and Faith","authors":"Margaret A. Morse","doi":"10.1163/9789004375871_007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004375871_007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":144231,"journal":{"name":"Domestic Devotions in Early Modern Italy","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126179380","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Music and Domestic Devotion in the Age of Reform","authors":"I. Fenlon","doi":"10.1163/9789004375871_006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004375871_006","url":null,"abstract":"In the second book of his De cardinalatu, Paolo Cortesi presents the image of the ideal cardinal not only as a powerful papal bureaucrat with influence in the curia, but also as the master of a large household.1 Designed as a guide to virtuous behaviour, De cardinalatu addresses many practical aspects of the cardinal’s life, including the construction, decoration, and functional operations of palaces. Heavily indebted to both Vitruvius and Alberti, Cortesi’s discussion of palace-building also reflects his knowledge of real Roman examples including the imposing residence of Cardinal Raffaele Riario (now the Palazzo della Cancelleria). Cortesi’s ideal palace includes not only a chapel, as might be expected, but also a music room, which should have a round and vaulted ceiling to improve the acoustic, and bronze or earthenware vases sunk into the wall cavities to amplify the sound.2 These two spaces would have functioned as the principal sites of musical activity within the palace, the former for devotional music sometimes performed in a liturgical context, the latter largely (though not exclusively) for the enjoyment of secular songs and instrumental music. Surviving domestic collections of printed and manuscript music from a number of palaces with private chapels, such as the Palazzo Massimo alle Colonne and the Palazzo Altemps, bring substance to Cortesi’s words.3 In","PeriodicalId":144231,"journal":{"name":"Domestic Devotions in Early Modern Italy","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116359107","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Delight in Painted Companions: Shaping the Soul from Birth in Early Modern Italy","authors":"M. Corry","doi":"10.1163/9789004375871_015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004375871_015","url":null,"abstract":"This essay explores the production of numerous relatively cheap, small-scale religious paintings of Leonardesque inspiration, which depict episodes from the infancy of Christ and St John the Baptist. Early modern devotional literature was deeply concerned with infancy, recommending that a child’s religious education begin in their earliest years when their soul was especially malleable. Medical beliefs taught that children were naturally inclined towards sensual pleasure, and pedagogues advised that their moral instruction ought to be enjoyable. Visual images were thought to be particularly appealing, and in combination with the idea that works of art could access the soul with greater immediacy than the written word, these discourses can be seen to have driven the market in iconographies that were pleasing to children. Paintings representing the encounter between Christ and his cousin in a joyful and ‘childish’ way provided a focus for the youngest members of the household, stimulating pleasure, recognition and positive spiritual development. Such images were generally small-scale and widely available, and this study therefore provides new insight into the religious concerns of those lower down the social scale.","PeriodicalId":144231,"journal":{"name":"Domestic Devotions in Early Modern Italy","volume":"177 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122859003","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Contested Devotions: Space, Identities and Religious Dissent in the Apothecary’s Home","authors":"Joanna Kostylo","doi":"10.1163/9789004375871_019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004375871_019","url":null,"abstract":"The wave of religious reform that swept Italy in the first half of the sixteenth century challenged Catholic institutions, dogmas, ceremonies and everyday religious life in an unprecedented way. Mingled with the influence of Erasmus and northern Protestantism, it mobilised people regardless of class, gender or educational status to express their religious needs and to interpret the meaning of the sacred for themselves, wishing to ‘live according to their own brains’,1 to ‘pray quietly at home’ with no need for ‘decorated altars and sounding bells of the material churches,’ as some of them declared.2 Well before the events of the Reformation, the laity turned their homes into a refuge from the devotional formalism of the institutional Church. While often inspired by civic cults and other forms of communal piety, the laity actively and creatively interpreted their relation to the divine in the domestic sphere.3 But as confessional lines hardened in the wake of the Council of Trent (1545–1563), a concern for inward-looking spirituality, domesticity, solitude and isolation often turned into necessity. Thus when in 1575 the Venetian apothecary Silvestro Gemma shut the door of his pharmacy to isolate himself from the sound of the litanies and drama of the Corpus Christi procession, which","PeriodicalId":144231,"journal":{"name":"Domestic Devotions in Early Modern Italy","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124510541","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Ex Voto between Domestic and Public Space: From Personal Testimony to Collective Memory","authors":"J. Garnett, G. Rosser","doi":"10.1163/9789004375871_004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004375871_004","url":null,"abstract":"Holy pictures for the house; modes of prayer recommended for use in the privacy of the chamber; vernacular religious texts for lay consumption: these leave no doubt of the perceived significance of the home as a place of Christian devotion during the Renaissance. To privilege the domestic context of Renaissance religion, which is the purpose of the present volume, is to bring welcome light to neglected evidence of spirituality within the household. At the same time, however, the focus of attention on the domestic environment should not be taken to imply a separation of spheres. It is a premise of the essay which follows that there was no form of devotion in the home which did not find its meaning in a larger context of shared identity and belief. The Italian Renaissance casa, at different social levels, comprised diverse social groups, economic activities, and functional locations, and this complexity blurred the boundary between domestic and communal or social spaces. The household was at once the site of both the ‘personal’ and the ‘public’; and its individual members were equally multifaceted. This point matters, because to give particular attention and priority to evidence of religious behaviour within the home is to risk polarising the historical picture – or rather, since the polarisation is already present, to exacerbate the problem. The original rhetoric of the sixteenth-century Protestant Reformation established a supposedly fundamental contrast between the Lutheran householder and his wife, at home, in intimate conversation with the deity, and an unthinking herd of Catholic parishioners gathered, in church, in passive incomprehension of a collective liturgy. Negative accounts of the pre-Reformation Church – influenced by Counter-Reformation Catholic no less than Protestant critiques – have been extensively dismantled by recent scholarship, yet the effect of the confessional debates of the sixteenth century is still evident in the divergent directions taken by recent and current research. Some years ago, André Vauchez drew a categorical distinction between two separate and ‘contrary’ traditions, respectively of the public cult of the saints","PeriodicalId":144231,"journal":{"name":"Domestic Devotions in Early Modern Italy","volume":"108 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122482054","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}