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This study is an exploration of lived religion and gender across
the Reformation, from the 14th-18th centuries. Combining conceptual
development with empirical history, the authors explore these two
topics via themes of power, agency, work, family, sainthood and
witchcraft. By advancing the theoretical category of 'experience',
Lived Religion and Gender reveals multiple femininities and
masculinities in the intersectional context of lived religion. The
authors analyse specific case studies from both medieval and early
modern sources, such as secular court records, to tell the stories
of both individuals and large social groups. By exploring lived
religion and gender on a range of social levels including the
domestic sphere, public devotion and spirituality, this study
explains how late medieval and early modern people performed both
religion and gender in ways that were vastly different from what
ideologists have prescribed. Lived Religion and Gender covers a
wide geographical area in western Europe including Italy,
Scandinavia and Finland, making this study an invaluable resource
for scholars and students concerned with the history of religion,
the history of gender, the history of the family, as well as
medieval and early modern European history. The Introduction of
this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF
under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives
4.0 license and is available here:
https://tandfbis.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/rt-files/docs/Open+Access+Chapters/9781351003384_oaintroduction.pdf
This study is an exploration of lived religion and gender across
the Reformation, from the 14th-18th centuries. Combining conceptual
development with empirical history, the authors explore these two
topics via themes of power, agency, work, family, sainthood and
witchcraft. By advancing the theoretical category of 'experience',
Lived Religion and Gender reveals multiple femininities and
masculinities in the intersectional context of lived religion. The
authors analyse specific case studies from both medieval and early
modern sources, such as secular court records, to tell the stories
of both individuals and large social groups. By exploring lived
religion and gender on a range of social levels including the
domestic sphere, public devotion and spirituality, this study
explains how late medieval and early modern people performed both
religion and gender in ways that were vastly different from what
ideologists have prescribed. Lived Religion and Gender covers a
wide geographical area in western Europe including Italy,
Scandinavia and Finland, making this study an invaluable resource
for scholars and students concerned with the history of religion,
the history of gender, the history of the family, as well as
medieval and early modern European history. The Introduction of
this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF
under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives
4.0 license and is available here:
https://tandfbis.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/rt-files/docs/Open+Access+Chapters/9781351003384_oaintroduction.pdf
'At a historic moment, when religion shows all its social and
political strength in various post-modern societies around our
globe, this fascinating collection of studies from the Middle Ages
to twentieth-century Europe demonstrates all the richness and
innovative force of investigating individual and shared experiences
when questioning the cultural, political and social place of
religion in society. It also makes known in English the work of a
series of Finnish historians elaborating together a pioneering
vision of the notion of experience in the discipline of history.'-
Piroska Nagy, Universite du Quebec a Montreal, Canada This open
access book offers a theoretical introduction to the history of
experience on three conceptual levels: everyday experience,
experience as process, and experience as structure. Chapters apply
'experience' to empirical case studies, exploring how people have
made and shared their religion through experience in history. This
book understands experience as a simultaneously socially
constructed and intimately personal process that connects
individuals to communities and past to future, thereby forming
structures that create and direct societies. It represents the
crossroads of a new field of the history of experience, and an
established tradition of the history of lived religion. Chapters
offer a longue duree view from the fourteenth-century heretics, via
experiences of miracle, madness, sickness, suffering, prayer,
conversion and death, to the religious artisanship of soldiers in
the Second World War frontlines. It concentrates on Northern
Europe, but includes materials from Italy, France and United
Kingdom.
'At a historic moment, when religion shows all its social and
political strength in various post-modern societies around our
globe, this fascinating collection of studies from the Middle Ages
to twentieth-century Europe demonstrates all the richness and
innovative force of investigating individual and shared experiences
when questioning the cultural, political and social place of
religion in society. It also makes known in English the work of a
series of Finnish historians elaborating together a pioneering
vision of the notion of experience in the discipline of history.'-
Piroska Nagy, Universite du Quebec a Montreal, Canada This open
access book offers a theoretical introduction to the history of
experience on three conceptual levels: everyday experience,
experience as process, and experience as structure. Chapters apply
'experience' to empirical case studies, exploring how people have
made and shared their religion through experience in history. This
book understands experience as a simultaneously socially
constructed and intimately personal process that connects
individuals to communities and past to future, thereby forming
structures that create and direct societies. It represents the
crossroads of a new field of the history of experience, and an
established tradition of the history of lived religion. Chapters
offer a longue duree view from the fourteenth-century heretics, via
experiences of miracle, madness, sickness, suffering, prayer,
conversion and death, to the religious artisanship of soldiers in
the Second World War frontlines. It concentrates on Northern
Europe, but includes materials from Italy, France and United
Kingdom.
Central to the everyday life of medieval Christians was interaction
with the saints. Whilst the process of praying to a heavenly
intercessor involved not only private devotion, it was also
intrinsically connected with society at large. As it required the
individual to communicate and negotiate both with the saint and
within the group of devotees, the process of invocation exposed
social processes such as community dynamics and the construction of
gender. Considering these issues and others, Gender, Miracles, and
Daily Life focuses on the depositions of the canonization processes
of Thomas Cantilupe (1307) and Nicholas of Tolentino (1325). It
explores how ordinary laypeople understood the daily
responsibilities that determined their relationship to the saints,
and articulates how their shared narratives contributed to the
rituals which surrounded a miracle. This material has been little
explored by scholars, yet offers a vivid and colourful insight into
the world of men and women of the fourteenth century.
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