Mary Laven
Biographic Data
| ID | 234824 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mary Laven |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mary |
| FAMILY NAME | Laven |
| SIGNATURE | LAVEN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Jesus University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5233-1643 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 5 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Women Historians and Religious Change
This piece reflects on the role of women historians in proposing alternative narratives of religious change. Its focus is on the work of scholars who have challenged us to rethink the history of the European Reformations by placing gender and more recently material culture at the centre of their analyses. The broader suggestion is that the field of religious history has been especially receptive to radical interventions by women historians
Religious Materiality in the Early Modern World
This collection of essays offers a comparative perspective on religious materiality across the early modern world. Setting out from the premise that artefacts can provide material evidence of the nature of early modern religious practices and beliefs, the volume tests and challenges conventional narratives of change based on textual sources. Religious Materiality in the Early Modern World brings together scholars of Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, …
Il chiaro e lo scuro
Reliquary Tabernacles in Fourteenth-Century Italy
The protagonists of this book are eleven fourteenth-century reliquary tabernacles. They all hail from Siena, though have ended up in collections across Europe and the US, from Baltimore and Cleveland to Lyon, London, Florence and Milan. Some are moderately well known and on public view; others are little studied and in private hands. Three-dimensional objects that were meant to be carried in procession or which formed the focal point for intense …
Robert Maniura, Art and Miracle in Renaissance Tuscany
Religious Materiality in the Early Modern World
This collection of essays offers a comparative perspective on religious materiality across the early modern world. Setting out from the premise that artefacts can provide material evidence of the nature of early modern religious practices and beliefs, the volume tests and challenges conventional narratives of change based on textual sources. Religious Materiality in the Early Modern World brings together scholars of Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, …
Religious Materiality in the Early Modern World
The Sacred Home in Renaissance Italy
The Sacred Home in Renaissance Italy explores private devotional life in the Italian Renaissance home between 1400 and 1600, and suggests that piety was not confined to the Church and the convent but infused daily life within the household. Books, buildings, objects, spaces, images, and archival sources help to cast light on the practice of religion in the home. Acts of devotion, from routine prayers to extraordinary religious experiences such as…
Accounting for Affection
Caroline Castiglione is well known to historians of early modern Italy for her acclaimed first book, Patrons and Adversaries: Nobles and Villagers in Italian Politics, 1640–1760, published in 2005. Her change in focus—from rural to urban, from bottom-up to top-down—may surprise some readers. The most obvious point of connection is the Barberini family, the baronial clan who governed the six villages north-east of Rome which are at the heart of th…
Famiglie e spazi sacri nella Lombardia del Rinascimento
Famiglie e spazi sacri nella Lombardia del Rinascimento. Letizia Arcangeli, Giorgio Chittolini, Federico Del Tredici, and Edoardo Rossetti, eds. Milan: Scalpendi Editore, 2015. 442 pp. €22. - Volume 70 Issue 2
Women and Religion in the Atlantic Age, 1550—1900
Contents: Introduction, Emily Clark and Mary Laven Part I Old World Reforms: What are the women doing in Foxea (TM)s a Book of Martyrsa (TM)?, Patrick Collinson From devilry to sainthood: MAre Jeanne des Anges and Catholic Reform, Robin Briggs. Part II European Encounters with Africa and the Americas: Islands of women in a sea of change: Havanaa (TM)s female religious communities in the 18th-century Atlantic world, John J. Clune When is a cloiste…
The Ashgate Research Companion to the Counter-Reformation
Alexandra Bamji, Geert H. Janssen, Mary Laven (ed.), The Ashgate Research Companion to the Counter-Reformation, Farnham (Asghate Publishing) 2013, XX–488 p., 21 b&w ill., 3 maps ill., ISBN 978-1-4094-2373-7, GBP 85,00.
Women and Religion in the Atlantic Age, 1550-1900
Recording Miracles in Renaissance Italy
If you take the train from Naples around the northern rim of Mount Vesuvius, you will arrive at Madonna dell'Arco, on the edge of the town of Sant'Anastasia. The station takes its name from the large and rather grandiose whitewashed sanctuary that dominates the neighbourhood. With its generic belfry and copper-green cupola, the church building, begun in 1593 and much extended in the twentieth century, is nothing to write home about architecturall…
The Ashgate Research Companion to the Counter-Reformation
Bamji, Alexandra, Geert H. Janssen, and Mary Laven, eds. The Ashgate Research Companion to the Counter-Reformation. An article from journal Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme (In Celebration of the Fiftieth Anniversary (I)), on Érudit
Jesuits and Eunuchs
For early modern ethnographers, gender was an invaluable category of analysis. It provided a crucial means of testing the civility and morality of foreign people. And it was put to vigorous rhetorical work in conjuring up comforting similarities and repulsive alterities. Hence in their descriptions of China, the Portuguese apothecary Tomé Pires commented reassuringly that "The women resemble Castilian women", while the Spanish Dominican friar Gas…
Daniela Hacke, Women, sex and marriage in early modern Venice . (Aldershot
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Shamanism, Catholicism and Gender Relations in Colonial Philippines, 1521–1685 by Carolyn Brewer. State of Virginity
The Formation of Clerical and Confessional Identities in Early Modern Europe
Wim Janse, and Barbara Pitkin eds. The Formation of Clerical and Confessional Identities in Early Modern Europe. Dutch Review of Church History 85. Leiden : Brill, 2006. viii + 570 pp. index. illus. $228. ISBN: 90-04-14909-0. - Volume 60 Issue 3
Religious Women in Golden Age Spain
Encountering the Counter-Reformation
While the Reformation has, from the very beginning, been seen as a drama which drew its cast from every sphere of society, the Counter-Reformation was until recently considered the project of elites. Even those who sought to write the social history of the Catholic reform movement allocated to “the people” the role of resisting the course of change rather than contributing to the transformation of early modern Catholicism. Swimming against this t…
Reform before the Reformation
THIS book bears witness to the intensity of reflection and debate regarding the reform of the Catholic church that took place in Italy in the early sixteenth century. It focuses on the pious projects of one young Venetian nobleman, Vincenzo Querini (1478–1514), whose objectives for religious renewal included revival of the religious orders; reform of the papal household; ghettoisation of the Jews; conversion of pagans overseas; and the attainment…
Sex and Celibacy in Early Modern Venice
This article explores the nature of relationships formed between nuns and male clergy in early modern Venice. It is based on the records of trials for the violation of conventual enclosure, the principle at the centre of the reforms of nunneries decreed by the Council of Trent, which aspired to sever all links between nuns and the world outside the cloister. The trials offer detailed insights into the interactions of male and female celibates, wh…
Jesuits and Eunuchs
For early modern ethnographers, gender was an invaluable category of analysis. It provided a crucial means of testing the civility and morality of foreign people. And it was put to vigorous rhetorical work in conjuring up comforting similarities and repulsive alterities. Hence in their descriptions of China, the Portuguese apothecary Tomé Pires commented reassuringly that "The women resemble Castilian women", while the Spanish Dominican friar Gas…
Recording Miracles in Renaissance Italy
If you take the train from Naples around the northern rim of Mount Vesuvius, you will arrive at Madonna dell'Arco, on the edge of the town of Sant'Anastasia. The station takes its name from the large and rather grandiose whitewashed sanctuary that dominates the neighbourhood. With its generic belfry and copper-green cupola, the church building, begun in 1593 and much extended in the twentieth century, is nothing to write home about architecturall…
Encountering the Counter-Reformation
While the Reformation has, from the very beginning, been seen as a drama which drew its cast from every sphere of society, the Counter-Reformation was until recently considered the project of elites. Even those who sought to write the social history of the Catholic reform movement allocated to “the people” the role of resisting the course of change rather than contributing to the transformation of early modern Catholicism. Swimming against this t…
Sex and Celibacy in Early Modern Venice
This article explores the nature of relationships formed between nuns and male clergy in early modern Venice. It is based on the records of trials for the violation of conventual enclosure, the principle at the centre of the reforms of nunneries decreed by the Council of Trent, which aspired to sever all links between nuns and the world outside the cloister. The trials offer detailed insights into the interactions of male and female celibates, wh…
Sex and Celibacy in Early Modern Venice
This article explores the nature of relationships formed between nuns and male clergy in early modern Venice. It is based on the records of trials for the violation of conventual enclosure, the principle at the centre of the reforms of nunneries decreed by the Council of Trent, which aspired to sever all links between nuns and the world outside the cloister. The trials offer detailed insights into the interactions of male and female celibates, wh…
Encountering the Counter-Reformation
While the Reformation has, from the very beginning, been seen as a drama which drew its cast from every sphere of society, the Counter-Reformation was until recently considered the project of elites. Even those who sought to write the social history of the Catholic reform movement allocated to “the people” the role of resisting the course of change rather than contributing to the transformation of early modern Catholicism. Swimming against this t…
Reform before the Reformation
THIS book bears witness to the intensity of reflection and debate regarding the reform of the Catholic church that took place in Italy in the early sixteenth century. It focuses on the pious projects of one young Venetian nobleman, Vincenzo Querini (1478–1514), whose objectives for religious renewal included revival of the religious orders; reform of the papal household; ghettoisation of the Jews; conversion of pagans overseas; and the attainment…
Shamanism, Catholicism and Gender Relations in Colonial Philippines, 1521–1685 by Carolyn Brewer. State of Virginity
The Formation of Clerical and Confessional Identities in Early Modern Europe
Wim Janse, and Barbara Pitkin eds. The Formation of Clerical and Confessional Identities in Early Modern Europe. Dutch Review of Church History 85. Leiden : Brill, 2006. viii + 570 pp. index. illus. $228. ISBN: 90-04-14909-0. - Volume 60 Issue 3
Religious Women in Golden Age Spain
Daniela Hacke, Women, sex and marriage in early modern Venice . (Aldershot
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Jesuits and Eunuchs
For early modern ethnographers, gender was an invaluable category of analysis. It provided a crucial means of testing the civility and morality of foreign people. And it was put to vigorous rhetorical work in conjuring up comforting similarities and repulsive alterities. Hence in their descriptions of China, the Portuguese apothecary Tomé Pires commented reassuringly that "The women resemble Castilian women", while the Spanish Dominican friar Gas…
The Ashgate Research Companion to the Counter-Reformation
Bamji, Alexandra, Geert H. Janssen, and Mary Laven, eds. The Ashgate Research Companion to the Counter-Reformation. An article from journal Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme (In Celebration of the Fiftieth Anniversary (I)), on Érudit
Women and Religion in the Atlantic Age, 1550—1900
Contents: Introduction, Emily Clark and Mary Laven Part I Old World Reforms: What are the women doing in Foxea (TM)s a Book of Martyrsa (TM)?, Patrick Collinson From devilry to sainthood: MAre Jeanne des Anges and Catholic Reform, Robin Briggs. Part II European Encounters with Africa and the Americas: Islands of women in a sea of change: Havanaa (TM)s female religious communities in the 18th-century Atlantic world, John J. Clune When is a cloiste…
The Ashgate Research Companion to the Counter-Reformation
Alexandra Bamji, Geert H. Janssen, Mary Laven (ed.), The Ashgate Research Companion to the Counter-Reformation, Farnham (Asghate Publishing) 2013, XX–488 p., 21 b&w ill., 3 maps ill., ISBN 978-1-4094-2373-7, GBP 85,00.
Women and Religion in the Atlantic Age, 1550-1900
Recording Miracles in Renaissance Italy
If you take the train from Naples around the northern rim of Mount Vesuvius, you will arrive at Madonna dell'Arco, on the edge of the town of Sant'Anastasia. The station takes its name from the large and rather grandiose whitewashed sanctuary that dominates the neighbourhood. With its generic belfry and copper-green cupola, the church building, begun in 1593 and much extended in the twentieth century, is nothing to write home about architecturall…
Famiglie e spazi sacri nella Lombardia del Rinascimento
Famiglie e spazi sacri nella Lombardia del Rinascimento. Letizia Arcangeli, Giorgio Chittolini, Federico Del Tredici, and Edoardo Rossetti, eds. Milan: Scalpendi Editore, 2015. 442 pp. €22. - Volume 70 Issue 2
The Sacred Home in Renaissance Italy
The Sacred Home in Renaissance Italy explores private devotional life in the Italian Renaissance home between 1400 and 1600, and suggests that piety was not confined to the Church and the convent but infused daily life within the household. Books, buildings, objects, spaces, images, and archival sources help to cast light on the practice of religion in the home. Acts of devotion, from routine prayers to extraordinary religious experiences such as…
Accounting for Affection
Caroline Castiglione is well known to historians of early modern Italy for her acclaimed first book, Patrons and Adversaries: Nobles and Villagers in Italian Politics, 1640–1760, published in 2005. Her change in focus—from rural to urban, from bottom-up to top-down—may surprise some readers. The most obvious point of connection is the Barberini family, the baronial clan who governed the six villages north-east of Rome which are at the heart of th…
Religious Materiality in the Early Modern World
This collection of essays offers a comparative perspective on religious materiality across the early modern world. Setting out from the premise that artefacts can provide material evidence of the nature of early modern religious practices and beliefs, the volume tests and challenges conventional narratives of change based on textual sources. Religious Materiality in the Early Modern World brings together scholars of Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, …
Religious Materiality in the Early Modern World
Robert Maniura, Art and Miracle in Renaissance Tuscany
Reliquary Tabernacles in Fourteenth-Century Italy
The protagonists of this book are eleven fourteenth-century reliquary tabernacles. They all hail from Siena, though have ended up in collections across Europe and the US, from Baltimore and Cleveland to Lyon, London, Florence and Milan. Some are moderately well known and on public view; others are little studied and in private hands. Three-dimensional objects that were meant to be carried in procession or which formed the focal point for intense …
Il chiaro e lo scuro
Religious Materiality in the Early Modern World
This collection of essays offers a comparative perspective on religious materiality across the early modern world. Setting out from the premise that artefacts can provide material evidence of the nature of early modern religious practices and beliefs, the volume tests and challenges conventional narratives of change based on textual sources. Religious Materiality in the Early Modern World brings together scholars of Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, …
Women Historians and Religious Change
This piece reflects on the role of women historians in proposing alternative narratives of religious change. Its focus is on the work of scholars who have challenged us to rethink the history of the European Reformations by placing gender and more recently material culture at the centre of their analyses. The broader suggestion is that the field of religious history has been especially receptive to radical interventions by women historians
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