Art and Lived Religion Medieval and Early Modern

Table of Contents

Introduction: Art and Lived Religion    

Karen E. McCluskey and Raisa Maria Toivo

Lived Religion at the Site of the Image

Ch 1    Objects of Lived Religion: Medieval Birthing Amulets in Nordic Countries

Hólmfríður Sveinsdóttir

Ch 2    The Art of Seeing: St Christopher in Early Modern Venice

Karen McCluskey

Ch 3    Lived Religion in Medieval India: Surasundari on Indian Temple Architecture 

Neha Khetrapal

Ch 4    Interacting with Sacred Images at the Multi-Confessional Borderland: Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, seventeenth to eighteenth centuries.

Tomasz Wiślicz

Lived Religion at the Site of Production

Ch 5    Created Through God: Lived Religion and Early Modern Artmaking

Elizabeth Burns-Dans

Ch 6    Authors of Reliquaries: Makers and Commissioners in the Medieval North

Sofia Lahti

Ch 7    Early Modern Illustrated Miracle Books and Embodied Experiences of the Sacred

Jenni Kuuliala

Lived Religion at the Site of Circulation

Ch 8    Haptic Encounters: the Ritual Practice of Dressing Religious Images in Sacred and Secular Contexts

Zuleika Murat

Ch 9    Worshipping the Ugly Goddess: Image and Devotion in the Aztec World

Patrizia Granziera

Ch 10 Unseen Angels and Ambiguous Experiences of Lived Religion in Early Modern Finland Raisa Toivo

Lived Religion at the Site of Audiencing

Ch 11 Experiencing the Pizzicaiuoli Altarpiece in Fifteenth-Century Siena

Susan Nolan

Ch 12 Chasing Miracles: Practices and Objects of the Disabled in the Venetian Terraferma Silvia Carraro

Ch 13 The Rich Man and the Prostitute in Moissac: the Public Function of Romanesque Sculpture

Ana Munk

Conclusions and Observations          

Karen E. McCluskey and Raisa Maria Toivo

Biography

Karen E. McCluskey is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Notre Dame, Australia. Her research investigates how art shapes and is shaped by lived experience. Recent publications: New Saints in Late-Mediaeval Venice (2020).

Raisa Maria Toivo is Professor of History at Tampere University, Finland. She works on the history of religious conflicts and witchcraft in early modern Europe and experience as an approach to history. Recent publications include Lived Religion and Gender in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe (co-authored with Sari Katajala-Peltomaa, 2021, Routledge) and Histories of Experience in the World of Lived Religion (co-edited with Sari Katajala-Peltomaa, 2022).