Vernacular Books and Domestic Devotion in Cinquecento Italy
From the fifteenth century onwards, devotional texts represented a prominent part of the output of the Italian printing press. Much of this production, which often represented a privileged way to access the biblical text, is still largely unexplored. My article will analyse a selection of devotional...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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De Gruyter
2019
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Journal of Early Modern Christianity
Year: 2019, Volume: 6, Issue: 2, Pages: 299-318 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CB Christian life; spirituality HB Old Testament KAF Church history 1300-1500; late Middle Ages KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history KBJ Italy |
| Further subjects: | B
Psalms
B Superstition B Devotional literature B domestic devotion B Stevens, John C.: Home B Prayer |
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| Summary: | From the fifteenth century onwards, devotional texts represented a prominent part of the output of the Italian printing press. Much of this production, which often represented a privileged way to access the biblical text, is still largely unexplored. My article will analyse a selection of devotional writings printed at the end of the fifteenth century and in the first three decades of the sixteenth century that were directed to a large audience of laymen and women of medium to low literacy. I will analyse how these texts entered the domestic devotional practices of Italian devotees, focussing especially on reading. I will take into account their suggestions about how, when, and by whom reading should be performed; what readings devotees were encouraged to pursue; how the ideal reader was shaped in the paratextual apparatuses; and, finally, what textual tools the readers were offered to perform their reading practices. |
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| ISSN: | 2196-6656 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of Early Modern Christianity
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1515/jemc-2019-2013 |