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Tangible religion : materiality of domestic cult practices from antiquity to early modern era / editors Ria Berg, Antonella Coralini, Anu Kaisa Koponen & Reima Välimäki.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Acta Instituti Romani Finlandiae ; v. 49Publication details: Roma : Institutum Romanum Finlandiae, 2021.Description: 281 p. : ill. (some col), plans ; 30 cmISBN:
  • 9788854911642
ISSN:
  • 05382270
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 291.38
Online resources:
Contents:
Acknowledgements. Introduction: Tangible religion from antiquity to the Early Modern period / Ria Berg, Reima Välimäki, Anu Kaisa Koponen, Antonella Coralini. Ancient world. More than dwellings. women, rituals and homes in Western Sicily (8th–5th Centuries BCE) / Meritxell Ferrer -- What is in a vase? Materiality and semiotics of cinerary vases in Egyptian stone and vase shapes in Roman domestic and funerary contexts / Simona Perna -- To live or not to live : the Lares and the transfer of the domicilium in a Roman town / Aude Durand & William Van Andringa -- Gods and cult objects in Roman houses : notes for a methodological research / Maddalena Bassani -- Instruments & amulets. Pompeian hairpins and women’s domestic ritual / Ria Berg -- Materialising divine presences. Hercules domesticus Rrevisited / Antonella Coralini -- Egyptian cults in Pompeian domestic wall paintings / Anu Kaisa Koponen -- Sacra privata in Central Italy : new data from an archaeological research / Maddalena Bassani. Medieval & Early Modern Europe. Making the sacred palpable : how material objects enhanced lay devotional practices in Late Medieval Europe / Claire Renkin -- More powerful than mere matter? Forbidden but practiced material religion among the Late Medieval German Waldensians / Reima Välimäki -- Venerated and didactic walls : devotional images on fifteenth- to sixteenth-century tile stoves in Northern Europe / Kirsi Majantie -- New faith, new home, new stove : the role of the Hanseatic ceramic trade in the transmission of new confessional and political identities in the Northern European home, c. 1500–1600 / David Gaimster.
Summary: This book has its roots in an international workshop of the same name, Tangible Religion, which focused on the material presence, use and meaning of objects relative to cult practices in premodern domestic spaces, in a time frame ranging from Antiquity to Early Modern Europe.
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Printed Books Academia Belgica RB001-022 / 49 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Not For Loan ACBE21100084
Printed Books Accademia di Danimarca Periodici PER Acta IRF 49 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Not For Loan ACDAN21090533
Printed Books British School at Rome S1.2/49 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Not For Loan BSR21110188
Printed Books Istituto Storico Austriaco Roma A 174.49 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Not For Loan IAR21100133

Workshop organized at the Institutum Romanum Finlandiae, Villa Lante in Rome, 27th–28th November 2014, by Dr. Ria Berg, Dr. Anu Kaisa Koponen and Dr. Marika Räsänen.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Acknowledgements. Introduction: Tangible religion from antiquity to the Early Modern period / Ria Berg, Reima Välimäki, Anu Kaisa Koponen, Antonella Coralini. Ancient world. More than dwellings. women, rituals and homes in Western Sicily (8th–5th Centuries BCE) / Meritxell Ferrer -- What is in a vase? Materiality and semiotics of cinerary vases in Egyptian stone and vase shapes in Roman domestic and funerary contexts / Simona Perna -- To live or not to live : the Lares and the transfer of the domicilium in a Roman town / Aude Durand & William Van Andringa -- Gods and cult objects in Roman houses : notes for a methodological research / Maddalena Bassani -- Instruments & amulets. Pompeian hairpins and women’s domestic ritual / Ria Berg -- Materialising divine presences. Hercules domesticus Rrevisited / Antonella Coralini -- Egyptian cults in Pompeian domestic wall paintings / Anu Kaisa Koponen -- Sacra privata in Central Italy : new data from an archaeological research / Maddalena Bassani. Medieval & Early Modern Europe. Making the sacred palpable : how material objects enhanced lay devotional practices in Late Medieval Europe / Claire Renkin -- More powerful than mere matter? Forbidden but practiced material religion among the Late Medieval German Waldensians / Reima Välimäki -- Venerated and didactic walls : devotional images on fifteenth- to sixteenth-century tile stoves in Northern Europe / Kirsi Majantie -- New faith, new home, new stove : the role of the Hanseatic ceramic trade in the transmission of new confessional and political identities in the Northern European home, c. 1500–1600 / David Gaimster.

This book has its roots in an international workshop of the same name, Tangible Religion, which focused on the material presence, use and meaning of objects relative to cult practices in premodern domestic spaces, in a time frame ranging from Antiquity to Early Modern Europe.

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