scholarly journals "Minhag Italia": Digital Approaches to Jewish Print Cultures – Nineteenth-century Italian prayer books

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alessandro Grazi
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Prayer Books ◽  
Print Cultures

Figures of Authority in Nineteenth-Century Ireland

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
First Century ◽  
Western World ◽  
Catholic Priests ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Emotional Politics ◽  
Print Cultures

This interdisciplinary collection investigates the forms that authority assumed in nineteenth-century Ireland, the relations they bore to international redefinitions of authority, and Irish contributions to the reshaping of authority in the modern age. At a time when age-old sources of social, political, spiritual and cultural authority were eroded in the Western world, Ireland witnessed both the restoration of older forms of authority and the rise of figures who defined new models of authority in a democratic age. Using new comparative perspectives as well as archival resources in a wide range of fields, eleven chapters show how new authorities were embodied in emerging types of politicians, clerics and professionals, and in material extensions of their power in visual, oral and print cultures. Their analyses often eerily echo twenty-first-century debates about populism, the suspicion towards scholarly and intellectual expertise, and the role of new technologies and forms of association in contesting and recreating authority. Several contributions highlight the role of emotion in the way authority was deployed by figures ranging from O’Connell to Catholic priests and W.B. Yeats, foreshadowing the perceived rise of emotional politics in our own age. This volume stresses that many contested forms of authority that now look ‘traditional’ emerged from 19th-century crises and developments, as did the challenges that undermine authority.

American Catholic Practice of Confession in Nineteenth-Century America

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick W. Carey
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Growth And Development ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
Spiritual Exercise ◽  
Nineteenth Century America ◽  
Fourth Lateran Council ◽  
Prayer Books ◽  
American Catholic

The chapter outlines the growth and development of the practice of sacramental confession and the ways in which the practice was promoted by Catholic clerical leaders. In some places in the early nineteenth century the practice was rare or relatively infrequent because of the lack of priests and ignorance or unwillingness of Catholic laity to follow the tradition. Bishops and priests in the early nineteenth century were satisfied with promoting yearly confessions to meet the canonical obligation prescribed by the Fourth Lateran Council (1215). After the 1830s, bishops and priests began a major campaign to increase the frequency of confessions as a spiritual exercise, a campaign that was successful and lasted well into the late 1950s. Catholic leaders promoted sacramental confessions through episcopal legislation and pastoral statements, catechisms, prayer books, preaching, and pastoral manuals for priests, and especially through parish missions.

The Jewish Mother’s Prayer: Mothers in Late Nineteenth-Century Hungarian Jewish Women’s Prayer Books

2017 ◽  
pp. 41-58
Author(s):  
Krisztina Frauhammer
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Jewish Identity ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Child Rearing ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
The Past ◽  
Hungarian Society ◽  
The Face ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Prayer Books

This chapter examines the genre of nineteenth-century Hungarian Neolog Jewish women's prayer books. It argues that the prayer books must be read in the context of emancipation and the increasing secularization of Hungarian society. It also describes the creation of prayers that sanctify a vocation of motherhood and child-rearing, which charged mothers with passing Jewish identity on to their children in the home. The chapter talks about Neolog prayer books that imagine the Jewish mother as a bulwark against secularization and simultaneously invest mothers with the power to recreate tradition in the face of emancipation. It points out how mothers are idealized and entrusted with the past for the sake of the future, enabling fathers to become part of public life outside the home.

Attraction and Attribution: Framings of Sephardi Identity in Ashkenazi Prayer Books

2018 ◽  
pp. 221-240
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Jewish Identity ◽  
Cultural Identities ◽  
Cultural Goods ◽  
Jewish Communities ◽  
Jewish Culture ◽  
Cultural Objects ◽  
Prayer Books ◽  
Wissenschaft Des Judentums

This chapter recounts how maskilim and early representatives of Wissenschaft des Judentums divided the shares of Jewish culture between Ashkenaz and Sepharad in order to address questions of Jewish identity arising in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Germany. It looks at the perception of medieval Jewish culture that affected the views of their contemporaries. It also analyses the acceptance of cultural goods between the Jewish communities of Ashkenaz and Sepharad and the notion of the divide. The chapter reviews studies that show how texts and ideas were transmitted between the different communities that were adapted and incorporated into the regional Jewish cultures. It describes collective cultural identities and their dynamism that can be studied in a nuanced way through examination of the transfer of cultural objects from one region to another.

Writing and Reading about Death

2021 ◽  
pp. 228-244
Author(s):  
John Parker
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Print Culture ◽  
Gold Coast ◽  
African Languages ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The North ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Prayer Books ◽  
Basel Mission

This chapter considers the transformation from a culture of speaking about death to one which included writing and reading about death. It spotlights the final quarter of the nineteenth century, from the creation of the British Crown Colony of the Gold Coast in 1874 to its expansion with the formal incorporation of Asante and the savanna hinterland to the north in 1901–2. The chapter focuses on literacy and print culture as they developed on the Gold Coast littoral, a process which would extend into Asante and beyond only in the twentieth century. This print culture comprised both vernacular African languages and, with the departure of the Dutch in 1872, the language of the remaining colonizing power: English. The former was particularly associated with the Basel Mission, whose European and African agents pioneered the transcription of Ga and Twi as written languages and produced the first vernacular printed texts: prayer books, primers, dictionaries, the gospels and, by the 1860s to 1870s, compete translations of the Bible. The Bible, of course, has a great deal to say about mortality and the ends of life, however, the chapter concentrates on a different, secular medium of entextualized discourses about death: newspapers, which, as in Europe, 'accorded mortality new openings.'

Public and Print Cultures of Sex in the Long Nineteenth Century

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Cline Cohen
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Print Culture ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Sexual Practices ◽  
Sexual Knowledge ◽  
Women's Bodies ◽  
Female Authors ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Print Cultures ◽  
Heterosexual Marriage

The explosion of print culture and the advent of female authors and readers created the foundation for important changes in sexual practices and sexual mores across the long nineteenth century, influencing attitudes toward female pleasure, romantic love, courtship, marriage, and same-sex eroticism. This chapter focuses on female creators of sexual knowledge who worked to change legal practices and social customs by posing alternatives to indissoluble heterosexual marriage. It places women’s writings in their historical context of circulation—across state and national lines, and from pamphlets to newspapers to courtroom testimonies—revealing the ways that print offered possibilities for new authorities to emerge on the subject of women’s bodies and experiences.

scholarly journals THE GREEK-PLAY BISHOP: POLEMIC, PROSOPOGRAPHY, AND NINETEENTH-CENTURY PRELATES

2011 ◽  
Vol 54 (4) ◽  
pp. 1013-1038 ◽  
Author(s):  
ARTHUR BURNS ◽  
CHRISTOPHER STRAY
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Victorian England ◽  
Anglican Church ◽  
Classical Scholarship ◽  
Radical Critique ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
Print Cultures

ABSTRACTDiscussions of classical scholarship and of the Anglican church in Victorian England have both at times identified an ‘age of the Greek-play bishop’ during which there was a close relationship between classical distinction and episcopal promotion. Closer investigation reveals few prelates fitting the description. This article explains this paradox by tracing the idea of the ‘Greek-play bishop’ across a variety of nineteenth-century literatures, in the process suggesting the significance more generally of the migration of ideas between overlapping Victorian print cultures. The article demonstrates how the concept originated in the radical critique of Old Corruption around 1830, before in the 1840s and 1850s satirists (notably Sydney Smith) adopted it in ad personam assaults on two bishops, J. H. Monk and C. J. Blomfield. In the 1860s, the concept became a less polemical category in the context of more wide-ranging analyses of the composition of the episcopate, gradually acquiring an elegiac aspect as new intellectual challenges arose to Victorian Christianity. By 1900, the ‘Greek-play bishop’ had begun to find the place in the conceptual armoury of historians of the nineteenth-century church that it would hold for much of the twentieth century, its polemical origins long forgotten.

scholarly journals Modlitewniki dla Żydówek w języku polskim, ich autorzy i użytkowniczki. Casus Żydów warszawskich połowy XIX wieku

2021 ◽  
pp. 99-121
Author(s):  
Agata Rybińska
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
Jewish Women ◽  
Polish Language ◽  
Women And Girls ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Prayer Books

Prayer Books for Jewish Women in Polish, Their Authors and Users: The Case of Jews in Warsaw in the Mid-Nineteenth Century In the nineteenth century, only two prayer books for Jewish women and girls were published in the Polish language: one written by Jakub Elsenberg (Warsaw 1855) and the other by Rozalia Saulson (Warsaw 1861). This small numer contrasts with the numerous editions of tkhines in Yiddish and Andachts- and Gebetbücher in German. The aim of the paper is to discuss the circumstances of the creation of both books and specificity of these editions. The origins of the users of the Warsaw’s prayer books according to the list of subscribers (and using the data of genealogical sources) are also considered.

scholarly journals Distribution of the Banned Lithuanian Press in Čekiškė Region

Lituanistica ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 66 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Inga Stepukonienė
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Close Contact ◽  
Multicultural Environment ◽  
The People ◽  
Local Residents ◽  
Prayer Books ◽  
The Town

Although in the second half of the nineteenth century a multicultural environment prevailed in the town of Čekiškė, the banned Lithuanian press was actively distributed there. The Lithuanians living in the nearby villages bought forbidden Lithuanian publications, which were distributed by book smugglers. Initially, Lithuanian prayer books and ABC primers were distributed in town markets, and later the first Lithuanian newspapers, Aušra and Varpas, other publications, and literature. Local residents were actively engaged in it. In addition, some quite active people would sell small religious paraphernalia near churches. The book smugglers from Čekiškė and its environs brought the Lithuanian press mainly from Prussia, where they often travelled together with the book smugglers of Ariogala and Vilkija regions. Press distributors maintained close contact with the priests of their town and of the said regions. Having graduated from the seminaries of Seinai or Kaunas, the priests who worked in Čekiškė and Ariogala became not only zealous supporters of the banned Lithuanian press, but also its distributors. Many of them suffered repression and were constantly transferred from one parish to another. Ieva Ivanauskienė and Mykolas Račkus, who distributed the banned Lithuanian press until the lift of its ban and even later, were the most zealous book smugglers of Čekiškė. People of great courage and ingenuity and capable of acting even in the most difficult circumstances, they bravely joined the book smugglers of this region. Povilas Višinskis, a publicist, writer, and cultural figure, who lived in the vicinity of Čekiškė for some time, devoted considerable efforts to creating and publishing Lithuanian publications. Thus, the people of Čekiškė region helped to bring about an important event – the lifting of the ban on the Lithuanian press – on 7 May 1904.

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