Overview
- Offers cutting-edge insights into early modern social and cultural history
- Explores lived religion and experience through the prism of various hagiographic texts and art
- Argues that hagiographic material can be used to enhance our understanding of history beyond the medieval period
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Experience (PSHE)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book discusses the ways in which early modern hagiographic sources can be used to study lived religion and everyday life from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century. For several decades, saints’ lives, other spiritual biographies, miracle narratives, canonisation processes, iconography, and dramas, have been widely utilised in studies on medieval religious practices and social history. This fruitful material has however been overlooked in studies of the early modern period, despite the fact that it witnessed an unprecedented growth in the volume of hagiographic material. The contributors to this volume address this, and illuminate how early modern hagiographic material can be used for the study of topics such as religious life, the social history of medicine, survival strategies, domestic violence, and the religious experience of slaves.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Jenni Kuuliala is Postdoctoral Researcher at Tampere University, Finland.
Rose-Marie Peake is Postdoctoral Researcher at Tampere University, Finland.
Päivi Räisänen-Schröder is Adjunct Professor at the University of Helsinki, Finland.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Lived Religion and Everyday Life in Early Modern Hagiographic Material
Editors: Jenni Kuuliala, Rose-Marie Peake, Päivi Räisänen-Schröder
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in the History of Experience
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15553-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-15552-0Published: 06 November 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-15555-1Published: 06 November 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-15553-7Published: 22 October 2019
Series ISSN: 2524-8960
Series E-ISSN: 2524-8979
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 328
Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations
Topics: History of Early Modern Europe, History of Religion, Social History, Cultural History