... perspectives have in common, however, an understanding of dancing as a shared experience and intercorporeal communication that created spiritual communitas . [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by Duke University Press 2025 medieval exempla dance bodily experience lay religious...

... into that same narrative as civic-­religious liturgists acting something like lay priests. As the comforted prisoner became a quasi-­liturgical object on the level of a sacramental, his confraternal keepers became the lay celebrants of a trans- formative civic religious ritual that protected his body so...

..., are also lay imitations of paraliturgical rit- ual. Often ending at the church itself with a ceremonial donation by each member, the procession gives guild members, dressed in their specialized liv- ery, the opportunity to sponsor and perform a solemn religious ritual. Barbara Hanawalt suggests...

... religious conflict and persecution when the concept of “lived religion” offers insufficient nuance. [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by Duke University Press 2025 early modern Finland Communion rite lived religion lay experience social cohesion and exclusion The Protestant...

...? The answers to these questions lay the foundation for the proposed definition. 2 Other scholars, such as Nancy Ammerman, Meredith McGuire, and David Hall, seek to define not so much what lived religion is, but rather what can be done with it by religious participants or academic scholars using...

... thus liminal objects, bridges between ecclesiastical rituals (the “Hours” of devotion) and the pious layperson. Claire Sponsler has described the “blurring of boundaries between religious and lay, public and private that was a central feature of the subjectivities constructed by and through...

... the- ology and liturgy, preferring to trace flows of secular power, hidden or overt, in putatively religious genres.3 So it is of especial interest that such distin- guished practitioners of New Historicism, founder members indeed, now choose to go down paths their fellow travelers have left untrodden...

... medieval laity that “will- ingly embraced a wide range of voluntary, discretionary religious practices” (and later channels Eamon Duffy when describing how “Protestant pastors did their duty and bid good riddance to the discretionary, lay-­initiated char- acter of so many late medieval religious...

..., and augmented them.4 This essay examines the way in which one highly influential medieval theologian of the period attempted to carve out a space in religious ritual and hermeneutics for what we might call “fashion” — although he does not call it that — and in doing so, explicitly confronted...

...,” and that transubstantiation was regarded a “magical notion” by which “the mere pro- nunciation of words in a ritual manner could effect a change in the character of material objects.”17 And at the core of the Mass’s magical ritual lay the liturgical equivalent of the secular book of spells: the Missale, or Mass book...

... contemplative instructional models, it is my contention that the play must be read in light of the Lol- lards’ challenge to orthodox religious culture, a challenge that forced that culture to reimagine and reframe its central ritual practices and pedago- gies. Although the play makes no explicit reference...

... into a sacred space and appro- priation of holy effigies as support for the entries, stands at the intersection of two worlds, the secular and the religious. This intersection—this “con- tact zone”—is a site inhabited by the practice of lay devotion especially associated with devotional art.32...

... a Motherhood and Ritual Murder in Medieval Spain and England Barbara F. Weissberger University of Minnesota – Twin Cities Minneapolis, Minnesota Accusations of Spanish religious persecution...

... and spectators to assent in specific legal claims to the land in dispute. medieval and early modern Rogation perambulation liturgical practice property law legal disputes performance theory Rogationtide perambulations took place throughout medieval and early modern England as a ritualized religious...

... a collective ritual and only became individualized and interiorized in the later Middle Ages, though early medievalists have recently presented evidence challenging this view. However, the debate has hitherto paid little attention to the variety of lived experiences and social contexts of “confession,” the act...

...- tion. Its permanence lay in the law of association through which a piece of ritual originally devised by the folk to secure their practical well-being remained, even after the initial meaning grew obscure, irrevocably bound up with their expectations of that well...

...-examination of true religious reformation. The expen- sive manuscripts in which so many of the Middle English tales are found, like the exquisite Books of Hours of the Virgin, bespeak a religious culture of aesthetic formalism, of the performance of external rituals at the expense of internal struggle...

... of topography (districts, parishes, squares, roads, hills, riv- ers), jurisdiction (civic, religious, royal), or of a city’s multiply classified and stratified human inhabitants.1 As John Fitzherbert’s 1523 Boke of Surueyeng and Improumetes notes, anyone who would attempt to map even the mate- rial...

...Alexandra Walsham This reflective essay focuses upon the theoretical problem of explaining religious change in medieval and early modern Europe without perpetuating inherited paradigms of progress and modernization. First, it assesses and challenges prevailing models of periodization through...

... al. (Leuven: Uitgeverij Peeters, 2002), 91 – 129. Baert establishes a connection between the probatic pool and the wood of the cross that I explore below. For multiple examples of medieval blessings using holy water, see Derek A. Rivard, Blessing the World: Ritual and Lay Piety...