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Occasion and audience as poetic constructs in early modern occasional poetry

Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract Occasional poetry, composed for specific events such as weddings or funerals, was a dominant form of poetry in early modern Europe. Despite its historical prominence, the role of the occasion as a literary and rhetorical construct in occasional poetry has been very little studied.
Eeva‐Liisa Bastman
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Dyeing the Springtime: The Art and Poetry of Fleeting Textile Colors in Medieval and Early Modern South Asia

Religions, 2020
This paper explores the metaphorical and material significance of short-lived fabric dyes in medieval and early modern South Asian art, literature, and religious practice. It explores dyers’ manuals, paintings, textiles, and popular and devotional poetry
Sylvia Houghteling
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Book Review: IV. Practical and Devotional: Practical Ideals in Evangelism [PDF]

Review & Expositor, 1907
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‘Who is the Gael who Would Not Weep?’: The Book of the O’Conor Don, Fearghal Óg Mac an Bhaird, and Late Bardic Poetry of Exile

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how late bardic poetry transforms the condition of exile into a literary mode that reimagines community and tradition. I argue that poetry of lament, blessing and devotion articulates a broader literary consciousness that anticipates modern notions of a national consciousness. The compilation of bardic verse in manuscript
Daniel T. McClurkin
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‘There Has Been a Scandal’: Cultural Performers and the Strangers’ Churches of London

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite what one might assume to have been a rigid line between London's refugee community—with its strict brand of Protestantism—and the city's performance cultures—often the target of strict Protestants' ire—historical records reveal a number of overlaps between those domains.
Matteo Pangallo
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In Search of Best Devotional Practices in Relation to the Practice of Preaching

, 2018
In Search of Best Devotional Practices in Relation to the Practice of Preaching. Doctor of Ministry. Major Applied Project, Concordia Seminary, 2018. pp. Preachers are tasked with faithfully carrying the Word of God to their people on a weekly basis, yet
Wagner, Jason
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El pincel y la pluma en la Vida de sor Estefanía de la Encarnación

E-Spania, 2020
This article examines the importance of the visual in the spiritual autobiography of the painter-author Sor Estefanía de la Encarnación (ca. 1597–1665).
Laura R. Bass, Tanya J. Tiffany
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National Relics: Secular Sacrality, Museums, and Heritage‐Making in Nineteenth‐Century Chile

Museum Anthropology, Volume 49, Issue 2, Fall 2026.
ABSTRACT This article examines how objects and bodily remains are transformed and ritualized into national relics through collecting and exhibiting practices in museums. Focusing on nineteenth‐century Chile, it draws on archival sources, material culture theory, and the anthropology of religion to argue that objects associated with Chile's nation‐state
Hugo Rueda Ramírez
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Maquette for Everyday Devotional

, 2016
Maquette for Everyday Devotional (2016), is a 1:8 scale working model for a larger public commission, Everyday Devotional (2017), a 5m free-standing sculpture sited across from the City Botanic Gardens in Alice Street, Brisbane.
Meade, J
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Marketing Salvation: Devotional Handbooks for Early Modern Householders

, 2014
My doctoral dissertation examines early modern English devotional handbooks, which were designed to instruct the laity on the tenets of the Protestant religion and help them navigate the religious upheavals of the sixteenth century. As part of their wide-
Shirkie, Amie L.
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