A cloister on trial. Religious culture and everyday life in late medieval Hungary. By Gabriella Erdélyi . (Catholic Christendom, 1300–1700.) Pp. xiii + 262 incl. 6 figs, 4 maps and 8 tables. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2015. £70. 978 1 409 46759 5

2017 ◽  
Vol 68 (2) ◽  
pp. 409-411
Author(s):  
Nora Berend
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Religious Culture ◽  
Late Medieval

Singing of Death—and Life

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Hayes
Keyword(s):  
New South ◽  
Folk Songs ◽  
Religious Culture ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Dominant Culture ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Life After Death ◽  
Dance Of Death ◽  
Broad Community ◽  
Special Meaning

This chapter explores New South folk songs of personified Death, with special focus on the Lloyd Chandler composition “Conversation with Death”—its geographic scope, probable spread over time, and broad community of appropriators. The roots of “Conversation with Death” are traced to the late medieval Dance of Death, and the song is interpreted as articulating a medieval/modernist vision. Folk songs of Death are shown to be strikingly different from the songs of death in the dominant religious culture, where death is a release and the focus is on life after death as one’s true home. In contrast, folk songs of death evoke the terror of death to affirm the value of this life in this world—an affirmation that had special meaning for the poor, who faced denigration and devaluation from the dominant culture.

Emperor Charles IV (1346–1378) as the Architect of Local Religion in Prague

2010 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
pp. 15-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
David C. Mengel
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Fourteenth Century ◽  
Religious Culture ◽  
Roman Emperor ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Local Religion ◽  
Guiding Principle

The idea of reform still supplies the guiding principle for most accounts of late medieval religion in Bohemia. Like a brightly colored thread, reform marks a trail leading forward from Jan Hus (d. 1415) to the leaders of the sixteenth-century Reformation, as well as backward to a series of precursors in the fourteenth century. This essay takes a different path through the religious culture of fourteenth-century Bohemia and of Prague, in particular. Rather than following the traditional historiography in identifying a handful of fourteenth-century Prague preachers as revolutionary forerunners of Jan Hus, this essay situates these and other figures within a more complicated and multivalent local religious culture, a culture that was carefully molded by Central Europe's most powerful authority. No one shaped Prague's local religion more dramatically than the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles IV (r. 1346–1378), as three examples offered here will illustrate. Like an architect, Charles IV designed much of Prague's vibrant local religion. Nevertheless, neither he nor anyone else completely controlled it.

scholarly journals Dimentions of Contemporary Postmodern Pilgrimage as Glocal Religious Cultural Heritage

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-94
Author(s):  
Liana Galabova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Religious Culture ◽  
Traditional Values ◽  
Sacred Sites ◽  
Religious Tourism ◽  
Tourist Experience

Contemporary practices of recreational and confessional travel and visit of sacred sites of various denominations focus multitude of orientations and attitudes regarding religious cultural heritage. Postmodern tourist experience of organisation and research encompasses wide space from local to global, from material to invisible, form forgotten to live heritage, and from sustainable to dynamic, from subjective to generally valid, acknowledged, and human in religious culture and everyday life. Transmission of traditional values and rituals, as well as actualisation of cultural practices basic for religions, confessions,and communities would be impossible without sacral topoi as a focus of tourist interests, flow of people and dynamic site exploitation, and without development of the reflection on those processes. Keywords: pilgrimage, religious tourism, glocal mobility, postmodernity, sacred sites, heritage perception, tourist reflections, accessibility of tourist sites

Reforming Church Space: Altarpieces and Their Functions in Early Modern Transylvania

2007 ◽  
Vol 87 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-28
Author(s):  
Maria Crăciun
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Religious Culture ◽  
Religious Art ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Lutheran Church ◽  
Visual Evidence ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
Confessional Identity ◽  
Ritual Context

AbstractFocused on an analysis of surviving late medieval religious art in Transylvanian Lutheran churches, this study wishes to explore the ways in which these images were presented to and viewed by the congregations after the Reformation of the Saxon community. The article considers the connection between these artifacts and the ritual context that framed them whilst assessing their ability to shape different patterns of piety and a new confessional identity. Drawing mostly on visual evidence, the study also relies on an exploration of the records of the synods of the Transylvanian Lutheran Church in order to understand this newly forged religious culture.

Biblical Languages and National-Religious Boundaries in Muscovy

2014 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-22
Author(s):  
Isaiah Gruber
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Thirteenth Century ◽  
Religious Identity ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Religious Culture ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Russian Orthodoxy ◽  
Biblical Language ◽  
Biblical Languages

Inspired in part by conversations with David Goldfrank, this essay considers aspects of how attitudes toward biblical language contributed to representations of national and religious identity in late medieval and early modern Muscovite Russia. At roughly the same time in history that revived Hebrew and Greek study in Western Europe helped to stimulate the Renaissance and Reformation, bookmen in East Slavia also reconsidered the original languages of sacred writings. Contrary to what is sometimes assumed, such interest was neither unknown nor marginal within Muscovite religious culture. Hebrew-Russian glossaries circulated in leading monasteries from at least the thirteenth century; major infusions of Greek (and other) words and definitions in the sixteenth century transformed these texts into multilingual dictionaries. This mainstream tradition in Russian Orthodoxy can be linked to such important religious figures as Nil Sorskii and Maksim Grek. I argue that by “appropriating” biblical languages and terminology, often via inaccurate translations, Muscovite Russian literati created and defended their distinctive identity vis-à-vis Jews and Greeks, who were considered God’s former chosen peoples. These findings suggest reconsideration of the nature and boundaries of faith in Muscovy in the “age of confessionalism.”

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