This volume explores aspects of the devotional world of late medieval northern Europe, with a special emphasis on how people interacted with texts, images, artifacts, and other instruments of piety at the level of the senses. The book focuses on the materiality of medieval religion and the manner in which Christians were encouraged to engage their senses in their devotional practices: gazing, hearing, touching, tasting, and committing to memory. In so doing, it brings together the ideals of medieval mystical writing and the increasingly tangible and material practice of piety, which would...
This volume explores aspects of the devotional world of late medieval northern Europe, with a special emphasis on how people interacted with texts, im...
This collection examines the interplay between politics and religion in early modern Ireland, with a particular focus on its urban communities. Contents include: Tudor reformations in Cork; Nuns and their networks in early modern Galway; Thomas Arthur MD (1593-1675) in Limerick and Dublin; Religion and politics in Belfast, 1660-1720; Oaths and oath-taking in Dublin, 1670-1774; Dublin weavers before the Spanish Inquisition, 1745-54; Fr. John Murphy (1710-53): a saint for 18th-century Dublin? Sir John Gilbert (1829-98): historian of early modern Dublin; Henry Fitzsimon, James Ussher and the...
This collection examines the interplay between politics and religion in early modern Ireland, with a particular focus on its urban communities. Conten...