Religious Practices and Everyday Life in the Long Fifteenth Century 1350-1570 : Interpreting Changes and Changes of Interpretation

Johnson, Ian (EDT); Rodrigues, Ana Maria S. A. (EDT)

ISBN 10: 2503593550 / ISBN 13: 9782503593555

Editore: Brepols Pub, 2022

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• Titolo: Religious Practices and Everyday Life in the Long Fifteenth Century 1350-1570 : Interpreting Changes and Changes of Interpretation
• Editore: Brepols Pub
• Data di pubblicazione: 2022
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 2503593550
• ISBN 13: 9782503593555
• Rilegatura: Rilegato
• Condizione: New

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The essays in this book bring to light and analyse the continuities and shifts in daily religious practices across Europe--from Portugal to Hungary and from Italy to the British Isles--in the transition from the Middle Ages to the early modern period. While some of these changes, such as the increasing use of rosaries and the resort to Ars Moriendi, were the consequence of the rise of a more personal and interiorized faith, other changes had different causes. These included the spreading of the Reformation over Europe, the expulsion or compulsory conversion of the Jews in the Iberian Peninsula, and the conquest of large portions of eastern Christianity by the Turks--all of which forced people, who suddenly found that they had become religious minorities, to adopt new ways of living and new strategies for expressing their religiosity. By recovering and analysing the cultural dynamics and connections between religious power, knowledge, culture, and practices, this collection reconsiders and enriches our understanding of one of the most critical phases of Europe's cultural history. At the same time, it challenges existing narratives of the development of (early) modern identities that still, all too often, dominate the self-understanding of contemporary European society.

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Ian Johnson is Professor of Medieval Literature and Head of the School of English at the University of St Andrews. He was Co-Director of the Queen's Belfast-St Andrews AHRC-funded project Geographies of Orthodoxy : Mapping English Pseudo-Bonaventuran Lives of Christ, 1350-1550 (2007-11). With Alastair Minnis he edited The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism : Volume II. The Middle Ages (2005). He is founding General Editor of The Mediaeval Journal (Brepols) and was for many years General Editor of Forum for Modern Language Studies (OUP). His latest books are The Middle English Life of Christ : Academic Discourse, Translation and Vernacular Theology (Brepols, 2013) ; The Pseudo-Bonaventuran Lives of Christ : Exploring the Middle English Tradition, edited with Allan Westphall (Brepols, 2013) ; The Impact of Latin Culture on Medieval and Early Modern Scottish Writing, edited with Alessandra Petrina (Medieval Institute Publications, 2018), and Geoffrey Chaucer in Context (CUP, 2019). He was a Working Group Coordinator and Management Committee member of the COST Action New Communities of Interpretation : Contexts, Strategies and Processes of Religious Transformation in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe (2013-17). Ana Maria S. A. Rodrigues (MA Sorbonne ; PhD University of Minho) is Associate Professor at the University of Lisbon. Previously, she lectured at the University of Minho. She has written extensively on economic and religious history. Her most recent publications concern medieval monarchy and gender : A. M. S. A. Rodrigues, M. S. Silva, and J. Spangler (eds), Dynastic Change : Legitimacy and Gender in Medieval and Early Modern Monarchy (London/New York, Routledge, 2019} ; ‘The Crown, the Court and Monastic Reform in Medieval Portugal : A Gendered Approach', in Queens, Princesses and Mendicants : Close Relations in a European Perspective, edited by N. Jaspert and I. Just (Zurich : Lit Verlag, 2019), pp. 53-63 ; ‘Spirituality and Religious Sponsorship in the 15th-century Portugese Crown : Kings, Queens and Infantes', in Women's Networks of Spiritual Promotion in the Peninsular Kingdoms (13th-16th Centuries), edited by B. Gari (Barcelona/Roma : IRCVM/Viella, 2013), pp. 205-20.