Birth, Death, and Domestic Religion in Early Modern London
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2025
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-45723-1 (ISBN)
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-45723-1 (ISBN)
Early modern London has long been recognised as a centre of religious diversity but this study is the first to examine domestic religion in the capital during a period of intense religious change. Emily Vine foregrounds the experiences of minority communities, Christian and Jewish, to explore the role of the home as a setting of religious practice.
Early modern London has long been recognised as a centre of religious diversity, yet the role of the home as the setting of religious practice for all faiths has been largely overlooked. In contrast, this study offers the first examination of domestic religion in London during a period of intense religious change, between the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 and the Gordon Riots of 1780. Emily Vine considers both Christian and Jewish practices, comparing the experiences of Catholics, Sephardi and Ashkenazi Jews, Huguenots, and confirming and nonconfirming Protestants alike. Through its focus on the crowded metropolis as a place where households of different faiths coexisted, this study explores how religious communities operated beyond and in parallel to places of public worship. Vine demonstrates how families of different faiths experienced childbirth and death, arguing that homes became 'permeable' settings of communal religion at critical moments of the life cycle. By focusing on practices beyond the synagogue, meeting house, or church, this book demonstrates the vitality of collective devotion and kinship throughout the long eighteenth century.
Early modern London has long been recognised as a centre of religious diversity, yet the role of the home as the setting of religious practice for all faiths has been largely overlooked. In contrast, this study offers the first examination of domestic religion in London during a period of intense religious change, between the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 and the Gordon Riots of 1780. Emily Vine considers both Christian and Jewish practices, comparing the experiences of Catholics, Sephardi and Ashkenazi Jews, Huguenots, and confirming and nonconfirming Protestants alike. Through its focus on the crowded metropolis as a place where households of different faiths coexisted, this study explores how religious communities operated beyond and in parallel to places of public worship. Vine demonstrates how families of different faiths experienced childbirth and death, arguing that homes became 'permeable' settings of communal religion at critical moments of the life cycle. By focusing on practices beyond the synagogue, meeting house, or church, this book demonstrates the vitality of collective devotion and kinship throughout the long eighteenth century.
Emily Vine is a social and religious historian based at the University of Exeter. She has previously contributed articles to journals including The Historical Journal and Huntington Library Quarterly, and was awarded the Curriers' Company London Journal Prize in 2017.
Introduction; 1. Domestic religion in seventeenth- and eighteenth- century London; 2. Childbirth, religious practice, and domestic space; 3. Religious practices following childbirth; 4. Daily domestic devotion and preparation for death; 5. Dying and deathbed practices; 6. Domestic religion in the days after death; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 22.07.2025 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History |
| Zusatzinfo | Worked examples or Exercises |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Gewicht | 561 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
| ISBN-10 | 1-009-45723-3 / 1009457233 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-009-45723-1 / 9781009457231 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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