Madonnas and Miracles: The Holy Home in Renaissance Italy - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1781300534 ISBN 13: 9781781300534

Publisher: Philip Wilson Publishers Ltd, 2017

Synopsis

It aims to challenge perceptions of Catholicism as a religion dominated by priests and ecclesiastical institutions, instead urging us to consider the agency of lay people in shaping religious life to their needs. This lavishly illustrated publication will contextualise, discuss and illustrate a wide variety of devotional objects and images, ranging from the highest-quality artefacts to rough-and-ready household items. By casting a new light on a range of objects, books and paintings, the book will offer a varied and vivid encounter with Renaissance spirituality which will appeal to a broad readership, allured by objects and images at once striking, unfamiliar and replete with intimate meaning.

About this title

About the Author

Mary Laven is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Cambridge, UK. She is the author of Virgins of Venice: Enclosed Lives and Broken Vows in the Renaissance Convent (2002) and the co-author, along with Abigail Brundin and Deborah Howard, of The Sacred Home in Renaissance Italy (2018). She is also the co-editor of several books, including Religious Materiality in the Early Modern World (2019; with Suzanna Ivanic and Andrew Morrall), Madonnas and Miracles: The Holy Home in Renaissance Italy (2017; with Maya Corry and Deborah Howard) and Women and Religion in the Atlantic Age, 1550-1900 (2013; with Emily Clark).

Edition details

• Publisher: Philip Wilson Publishers Ltd
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1781300534
• ISBN 13: 9781781300534
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208
• Editor: Corry Maya, Howard Deborah, Laven Professor Mary