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Before the late sixteenth century, the churches of Florence were internally divided by monumental screens that separated the laity in the nave from the clergy in the choir precinct. Enabling both separation and mediation, these screens were impressive artistic structures that controlled social interactions, facilitated liturgical performances, and variably framed or obscured religious ritual and imagery. In the 1560s and 70s, screens were routinely destroyed in a period of religious reforms, irreversibly transforming the function, meaning, and spatial dynamics of the church interior. In this volume, Joanne Allen explores the widespread presence of screens and their role in Florentine social and religious life prior to the Counter-Reformation. She presents unpublished documentation and new reconstructions of screens and the choir precincts which they delimited. Elucidating issues such as gender, patronage, and class, her study makes these vanished structures comprehensible and deepens our understanding of the impact of religious reform on church architecture.

Screens (Church decoration) --- Counter-Reformation. --- Florence --- History --- Church history --- Church renewal --- Reformation --- Anti-Reformation --- Church decoration and ornament --- Church furniture --- Altar screens --- Choir-screens --- Jubes --- Rood-lofts

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"Der Band 100 der QuFRG stellt die böhmische Reformationsgeschichte in ihrem frühneuzeitlich-europäischen Kontext in den Mittelpunkt: Der Großteil der böhmischen Bevölkerung gehörte im 15. und 16. Jahrhundert einer Nationalkirche an, die sich auf Jan Hus und seine Mitstreiter berief. Die Abendmahlsfeier unter beiderlei Gestalt (sub utraque specie) praktizierend und deshalb als Utraquisten bezeichnet, führten die Glieder dieser Kirche ein partikular- und landesrechtlich legitimiertes Sonderleben am Rande der Papstkirche. Als Schismatiker geduldet, sahen sich die Utraquisten selbst als legitime Glieder der römischen Kirche an. Mit Beginn und unter dem Einfluss der Wittenberger Reformation setzte jedoch ein Prozess ein, der dazu führte, dass die Mehrheit der Utraquisten sich 1575 auf Grundlage der Confessio Bohemica zur Reformation bekannte. Die vorliegende Studie wertet erstmals das einschlägige und bislang weitestgehend unübersetzte Quellenmaterial umfassend aus und rekonstruiert, wie sich der böhmische Utraquismus von einer vornehmlich rituell-liturgisch devianten Erscheinungsform des lateineuropäischen Christentums in Wechselwirkung mit der Wittenberger Reformation zu einer eigenständigen reformatorischen Konfessionsgemeinschaft entwickelte. Sie stellt damit zugleich den ganz eigenen Charakter der böhmischen Reformation heraus."

Hussites --- Lord's Supper --- 284.3 --- Communion --- Eucharist --- Holy Communion --- Sacrament of the Altar --- Blood --- Sacraments --- Sacred meals --- Last Supper --- Mass --- Christian sects, Medieval --- 284.3 Hussieten. Hus. Wycliff. Taborieten. Calixtenen. Utramquisten. Horebieten --- Hussieten. Hus. Wycliff. Taborieten. Calixtenen. Utramquisten. Horebieten --- History of doctrines --- Religious aspects --- Christianity

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Birth and death are both profound life transitions, revealing deeply existential, social, and spiritual questions in addition to various forms of ritual and ritualizing. While birth and death are often seen as opposites, this edited volume shows that the start and end of life share many ambiguities. They represent a beginning and an end, and lead to ritualizing as well as embodied forms of spirituality. Throughout the book, the authors discuss theoretical and empirical perspectives on rituals at birth and death from multidisciplinary perspectives, such as religious studies, anthropology, philosophy, and sociology. By doing so, they shed light on new forms of ritualizing, as well as on traditional rituals.

Religion & beliefs --- priest --- Ars moriendi --- sharing death --- death teacher --- African birth ritual --- ancestor worship --- art --- birth --- birth altar --- birthing justice --- ceremony --- child --- childbirth --- Chinese birth ritual --- contemporary art --- humanism --- indigenous birth ritual --- material culture --- mother --- nonreligion --- nonreligious --- pregnancy --- religion --- re-sacralization --- rite of passage --- ritual --- sacred --- secular --- secularity --- spirituality --- symbol --- traditional birth --- grief --- bereavement --- death --- pregnancy loss --- embodiment --- metaphor --- rituals --- cultural practices --- Africa --- memory making --- function of ritualized acts --- ritualization --- neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) --- new-born --- bereaved parents --- nurses --- parent support group --- existential --- infrastructural breaks --- sociology of repair --- life-cycle rituals --- funeral market --- maternity care --- tattoo --- body-modification --- identity --- self-construction --- Dimasa --- death rituals --- urban --- ritual performance --- personhood --- motherhood --- miscarriage --- stillbirth --- abortion --- ritualizing --- qualitative research --- The Netherlands --- n/a