This collected volume is dedicated to the role of prayer books in lay piety in medieval and early modern contexts. Instead of focusing on individual examples, i

Domestic devotion has become an increasingly important area of research in recent years, with the publication of a number of significant studies on the early mo

This volume sets out to explore the world of domestic devotions and is premised on the assumption that the home was a central space of religious practice and ex

In her study Chaoluan Kao offers a comprehensive investigation of popular piety at the time of the European Reformations through the study of sixteenth- and sev

Focuses on one of the most attractive features of late medieval manuscript illumination: the portrait of the book owner at prayer within the pages of her prayer