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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"prayer books"”.
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Pilgrimage through the pages: pilgrim's badges in late medieval devotional manuscripts
… the badges into the pages of their private prayer books—usually books of hours—by the second half of the fifteenth century. In turn, these led to painted trompe l’oeil representations of badges in manuscript margins. Through an analysis of surviving examples, this dissertation will examine …
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Tracing the Trend from Public Piety to Private Devotion in Western European Reliquaries of the Middle Ages
… and perhaps even common long before personal prayer books first became popular with the laity in the late eleventh and twelfth centuries. The emergence of the individual as seen in the transition from public, social, mediated religious practice to private, individual experience may be traced, …
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A Weave of Women in the context of contemporary feminism and traditional Judaism
… comparing its feminist rites to various Jewish prayer books and descriptions of traditional Jewish rituals. In my conclusion I offer a critique of the novel. I consider the problems Broner encounters by using traditional ritual forms to develop or celebrate her feminist themes and I discuss …
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Devotion to St John the Baptist in England in the Middle Ages.
… by vernacular legendaries, liturgy, primers and prayer books, representations of the Baptist in art, saints' lives, plays, relics, folklore and guild records. The discussion is grounded in the scriptural and patristic treatment of the Baptist and examines the ways in which the exegetical and …
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Sensory perception, religious ritual, and reformation in Germany, 1428-1564
… of source materials. Manuscript and printed prayer books, material culture, images, ego-documents, personal estate inventories, and church inventories demonstrate the sensory diversity of religious practice in late medieval and early modern Germany. Church ordinances, sermons, ecclesiastical …
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The Portrait Potential Gender, Identity, and Devotion in Manuscript Owner Portraits, 1230–1320
… simple representations of book owners in their prayer books. A group of eight illuminated books of hours and psalter-hours produced in northern France between 1230 and 1320 displaying a remarkable number of owner portraits provides a wealth of evidence for the study of the motif.</p> <p>Although …
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Works of Mercy: Literature, Compassion, and Devotion in Early Modern England
… at their very core—alongside contemporary prayer books, sermons, and devotional manuals, I show how compassion occupies a vital and under-explored space at the nexus of early modern understandings of body, religion, and community. Saturated in the visceral vocabulary of roiling bowels and …
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Ibn Arabi's Sufi and poetic experiences (through his collection of mystical poems Tarjuman al-Ashwaq)
This study is a theoretical research concerning Ibn Arabi's Sufi experience and his philosophy of the "unity of being" (also his poetical talent). I therefore adopted the historical and analytical methodologies to analyse and reply on the questions and suggestions I have raised in this paper. Both …
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Material Prayers: The Use of Text in Early Modern Italian Domestic Devotions
… engaged with devotional text during times of prayer and in their everyday lives. Studies of early modern devotional texts have explored their literary content, investigated their censorship by the Church, or concentrated upon an elite readership. This thesis, instead, investigates how ordinary …