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"Investigates the transfer of religious knowledge, literature, and artefacts within urban networks and communities. The boundaries between sacred and secular in the late Middle Ages, traditionally perceived as separate domains, are nowadays perceived as porous or non-existent. This collection on religious connectivity explores a new approach to religious culture in the late Middle Ages. In assessing the porosity of the domains of sacred and secular, and of religious and lay, the contributors to this collection investigate processes of transfer of religious knowledge, literature, and artefacts, and the people involved. Religious connectivity describes people in networks. This concept emphasises dynamics and processes rather than stability, and focuses on all persons involved in transfer and appropriation, not just the producers. It is therefore a fruitful concept by which to explore medieval society and the continuum of sacred and secular. By using the lens of religious connectivity, the authors of this collection shed new light on religious activities and religious culture in late medieval urban communities."-- List of Illustrations, Preface ; Introduction: Religious Connectivity as a Holistic Approach to Urban Society — Suzan Folkerts ; Urban Society and Lay-Religious Communities: Notes on Confraternities in Italian Communes and Signories — Marina Gazzini ; Religion as a Connecting Force in the Late Medieval City of Utrecht: The Religious Life of Alderman and Mayor Dirck Borre van Amerongen (c. 1438‒1528) — Cora Zwart ; Fleshers, Saints, and Bones: Connectivities that Transcend the Sacred-Secular Divide within the Medieval Scottish Burgh of Perth — Megan E. Edwards Alvarez ; Dit boec heft gegeven : Book Donation as an Indicator of a Shared Culture of Devotion in the Late Medieval Low Countries — Johanneke Uphoff ; Recycled Piety or a Self-Made Community? The Late Medieval Manuscripts of the Tertiaries of Sint-Catharinadal in Hasselt — An-Katrien Hanselaer ; The Re-Use of Melodies as an Indication of the Connection of Religious Song to the Urban Environment — Cécile de Morrée ; Caxton’s Press and Pilgrimages: Shaping Groups of Travellers into a New Community of Interpretation? — Delphine Mercuzot ; How Figures of the Bible Connected Printers, Artists, and Friends (1538‒76) — Elsa Kammerer ; The Coalman and the Devil: Carbonaria Fides and the Limits of Lay Religious Knowledge — María José Vega ; People, Passion, and Prayer: Religious Connectivity in the Hanseatic City of Deventer — Suzan Folkerts ; Index
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