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2 Prayer, pregnancy and print

Abstract

Claude Mellan’s engraving of the Holy Face and François Mauriceau’s engraving of the foetus in the uterine membranes might, initially, seem to have little in common beyond their use of the same spiralling engraving technique. However, by taking a closer look at the culture of image use in seventeenth-century Europe, this chapter shows how these two prints were interlinked through a shared engagement in the life-cycle event of pregnancy and childbirth. In the early modern period, the epistemologies of religion and medicine both held strong sway over understandings of generation, pregnancy and childbirth. While historians today tend to treat these different realms of knowledge separately, this chapter employs a close study of two prints, one from each side of the divide, to show how fundamentally interlinked they were. By exploring how each image pointed to the other, how each could inform the viewer’s understanding of the generative body, and how each could become an object of prayer, this chapter explores what wider conclusions we can draw about the medico-religious culture of early modern childbirth, and the role of the printed image in negotiating meaning and providing agency.

Abstract

Claude Mellan’s engraving of the Holy Face and François Mauriceau’s engraving of the foetus in the uterine membranes might, initially, seem to have little in common beyond their use of the same spiralling engraving technique. However, by taking a closer look at the culture of image use in seventeenth-century Europe, this chapter shows how these two prints were interlinked through a shared engagement in the life-cycle event of pregnancy and childbirth. In the early modern period, the epistemologies of religion and medicine both held strong sway over understandings of generation, pregnancy and childbirth. While historians today tend to treat these different realms of knowledge separately, this chapter employs a close study of two prints, one from each side of the divide, to show how fundamentally interlinked they were. By exploring how each image pointed to the other, how each could inform the viewer’s understanding of the generative body, and how each could become an object of prayer, this chapter explores what wider conclusions we can draw about the medico-religious culture of early modern childbirth, and the role of the printed image in negotiating meaning and providing agency.

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Front Matter i
  2. Contents v
  3. List of plates and figures vii
  4. Notes on contributors ix
  5. Acknowledgements xiii
  6. Introduction 1
  7. Part I: Birth, childhood and youth
  8. 1 Second birth and the spiritual life cycle in Protestant England 17
  9. 2 Prayer, pregnancy and print 40
  10. 3 Maternal breastfeeding: providence and advocacy in seventeenth-century sermons and prescriptive literature 65
  11. 4 Religious practice and the social worlds of eighteenth-century children, 1688 to 1800 88
  12. 5 Intergenerational relationships in a family archive 110
  13. Part II: Adulthood and everyday life
  14. 6 The secular dynamics of religious identity 133
  15. 7 The clergy and marriage in Restoration comedies 154
  16. 8 Women, religion, and early modern life cycles 173
  17. 9 Everyday religious and life-cycle events in the diaries of Richard Stonley 194
  18. 10 Letter-writing, life-cycle events, and the daily life of faith 214
  19. Part III: The dying and the dead
  20. 11 Birth, death and faith 241
  21. 12 Caring for the dying and the dead in the London Sephardi and Ashkenazi communities, 1656–1800 260
  22. 13 Temporality and the eternal afterlife in children’s hymns of the long eighteenth century 283
  23. Index 306
  24. Plates 315
Religion and life cycles in early modern England
Ein Kapitel aus dem Buch Religion and life cycles in early modern England
https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526149244.00009

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Front Matter i
  2. Contents v
  3. List of plates and figures vii
  4. Notes on contributors ix
  5. Acknowledgements xiii
  6. Introduction 1
  7. Part I: Birth, childhood and youth
  8. 1 Second birth and the spiritual life cycle in Protestant England 17
  9. 2 Prayer, pregnancy and print 40
  10. 3 Maternal breastfeeding: providence and advocacy in seventeenth-century sermons and prescriptive literature 65
  11. 4 Religious practice and the social worlds of eighteenth-century children, 1688 to 1800 88
  12. 5 Intergenerational relationships in a family archive 110
  13. Part II: Adulthood and everyday life
  14. 6 The secular dynamics of religious identity 133
  15. 7 The clergy and marriage in Restoration comedies 154
  16. 8 Women, religion, and early modern life cycles 173
  17. 9 Everyday religious and life-cycle events in the diaries of Richard Stonley 194
  18. 10 Letter-writing, life-cycle events, and the daily life of faith 214
  19. Part III: The dying and the dead
  20. 11 Birth, death and faith 241
  21. 12 Caring for the dying and the dead in the London Sephardi and Ashkenazi communities, 1656–1800 260
  22. 13 Temporality and the eternal afterlife in children’s hymns of the long eighteenth century 283
  23. Index 306
  24. Plates 315
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