{"product_id":"materiality-and-devotion-in-the-poetry-of-george-herbert-hardcover","title":"Materiality and Devotion in the Poetry of George Herbert - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eFrancesca Cioni\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGeorge Herbert, his contemporaries, and readers inhabited a world of material things that were spiritually animated but deeply troubling. Habitual providential and typological interpretation imbued matter with meaning, and connected it with the rest of Creation; using material things was an act of interpretation, devotion an act of habitual reading. Materialist philosophies rejected distinctions between body and soul; injunctions to continuous prayer made every place and every bodily motion a potential house of and vehicle for prayer. At the same time Protestant doctrine and Church of England policy, expressed in sermons, visitation articles and works of theology as well as devotional manuals, prayer books and even physiologies and biographies, policed the ways and conditions in which material things, bodies, and spaces might be properly used in devotion. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHerbert's \u003cem\u003eTemple\u003c\/em\u003e is built, read, and used in this world of continual textual and material 'reading'. By a close reading of \u003cem\u003eThe Temple\u003c\/em\u003e, this book explores how Herbert and his readers understood, experienced, and used material objects in devotion. \u003cem\u003eThe Temple\u003c\/em\u003e is an edifice built of paper and ink, of Biblical allusion, and of analogy to both physical churches and spiritual communities of believers: a material and spiritual, literal, and figurative construction. In his verse, Herbert plays with the boundaries between material and spiritual presence, and between literal and figurative signification; in its devotional poetics material and spiritual meanings inform one another and its readers' devotional lives. \u003cem\u003eMateriality and Devotion in the Poetry of George Herbert\u003c\/em\u003e focuses in turn on three of the most significant kinds of material things seventeenth-century English believers encountered in devotion: their bodies, church buildings, and books.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrancesca Cioni, \u003cem\u003eTraining and Projects Cataloguer, British Library\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrancesca Cioni completed her PhD on materiality in George Herbert's works in 2020 and was appointed as an HRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of York. She has since worked as a cataloguer at the British Library while undertaking independent research on early modern English literary and devotional cultures.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 352\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 11, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45837627457733,"sku":"9780198874409","price":188.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6718\/5605\/files\/MUW0ZQnU5H9780198874409.webp?v=1771281989","url":"https:\/\/selloorium.com\/products\/materiality-and-devotion-in-the-poetry-of-george-herbert-hardcover","provider":"Selloorium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}