The ground-breaking interdisciplinary project ‘Domestic Devotions: The Place of Piety in the Italian Renaissance Home’ will aim to demonstrate that religion played a key role in attending to the needs of the laity, and explore the period 1400-1600 as an age of spiritual – not just cultural and artistic – revitalization.
The project is one of only two projects from the Humanities and Social Sciences to be awarded ERC ‘Synergy’ funding, and the only project to be led by an exclusively female team. The competition for ERC funding attracted more than 700 applications, only 1.5% of which were retained for funding.
By bringing together the study of books, buildings, objects, spaces, images and archives, the researchers aim to show how religion functioned behind the doors of the Renaissance home.
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Piety in the renaissance home
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Research investigates piety in the Renaissance home
15 January 2013
The notion of the Renaissance as a ‘secular age’ is to be challenged by three University of Cambridge researchers after securing €2.3m funding from the European Research Council.