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Cosmos and Materiality in Early Modern Prague (Hardcover)
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Cosmos and Materiality in Early Modern Prague (Hardcover)
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Prague in the seventeenth century is known as home to a
scintillating imperial court crammed with exotic goods, scientists,
and artisans, receiving ambassadors from Persia, and also as a city
suffering plagues, riots, and devastating military attacks. But
Prague was also the setting for a complex and shifting spiritual
world. At the beginning of the century it was a multiconfessional
city, but by 1700 it represented one of the most archetypical
Catholic cities in Europe. Through a material approach, Cosmos and
Materiality pieces together how early modern men and women
experienced this transformation on a daily basis. Cosmos and
Materiality in Early Modern Prague presents a bold alternative
understanding of the history of early modern religion in Central
Europe. The history of religion in the early modern period has
overwhelmingly been analysed through a confessional lens, but this
book shows how Prague's spiritual worlds were embedded in their
natural environment and social relations as much if not more than
in confessional identity in the seventeenth century. While texts in
this period trace emerging discourses around notions of religion,
superstition, magic, and what it was to be Catholic or Protestant,
a material approach avoids these category mistakes being applied to
everyday practice. It is through a rich seam of material evidence
in Prague - spoons, glass beakers, and amulets as much as
traditional devotional objects like rosaries and garnet encrusted
crucifixes - that everyday beliefs, practices, and identities can
be recovered.
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