Salvador Ryan
Salvador Ryan is a native of Moneygall, County Offaly. He was appointed Professor of Ecclesiastical History at St Patrick's Pontifical University, Maynooth, in 2008. He is Editor of Irish Theological Quarterly, and Assistant Editor of Archivium Hibernicum. In 2013 he was appointed to the Advisory Board of the Journal of Baroque Studies published by the International Institute for Baroque Studies at the University of Malta. In 2014 he was appointed to the Editorial Advisory Board of British Catholic History, and more recently to the International Advisory Board of the online journal Maria: A Journal of Marian Studies. Since 2004 he has been a member of the European Network on the Instruments of Devotion,
Salvador has edited over twenty books and three special issues of the online journal Religions, and has published numerous articles and book chapters on aspects of popular religion and ritual from the Middle Ages to the present day. He is also a frequent media contributor, both to newspapers such as the Irish Times and Irish Independent, international publications such as The Tablet and the National Catholic Reporter, and many other periodicals. He has also featured on a number of TV and radio documentaries and podcasts.
He particularly enjoys writing about aspects of the history of Christianity for a popular readership.
Salvador has edited over twenty books and three special issues of the online journal Religions, and has published numerous articles and book chapters on aspects of popular religion and ritual from the Middle Ages to the present day. He is also a frequent media contributor, both to newspapers such as the Irish Times and Irish Independent, international publications such as The Tablet and the National Catholic Reporter, and many other periodicals. He has also featured on a number of TV and radio documentaries and podcasts.
He particularly enjoys writing about aspects of the history of Christianity for a popular readership.
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On 21 January 2021, theologians and philosophers from St Patrick’s College Maynooth, Co. Kildare offered their thought-provoking perspectives on these issues.
This paper asks whether the year 2020 will represent the 'final rupture' in the history of Irish Catholicism.
Books by Salvador Ryan
Topics covered in this volume include: the theme of light in early Irish texts; festive feasting and fighting in the Middle Ages; the Kilmore carols of County Wexford; the history of Irish Christmas food through the centuries; crimes of Christmas past; Christmas on the Blasket Islands; the claim that ‘Santa’s Grave’ is in County Kilkenny; why Irish missionaries in Zimbabwe regularly missed out on their Christmas dinner; the origins and early life of the Late Late Toy Show; a Christmas surprise among Irish peacekeepers in the Lebanon; Christmas customs among the Travelling Community; Christmas and the Irish Jewish community; the Wren Boys; ‘Women’s Christmas’; Irish links to popular Christmas carols; Christmas and James Joyce; the curious custom of reciting 4,000 Hail Marys in the lead up to Christmas, and why it became an established tradition for the Viceroy to send a woodcock to the British monarch every Christmas.
This anthology will prove a fascinating read for all who are interested in the social, cultural, and religious history of Ireland, but, more importantly, will delight all who love Christmas itself
What emerges is a reflection on the theme of reform within the church: what it has meant in the past, what it means for us now, and what it might mean in the future.
Contributors include:
Christopher M. Bellitto
Shaun Blanchard
Agnès Desmazières
Massimo Faggioli
Francis Gonsalves, SJ
Julia Knop
Bishop Vincent Long, OFMConv
Rafael Luciani
Declan Marmion
Ethna Regan
Pedro Trigo, SJ
Following the success of the three-volume series, Birth, Marriage and Death and the Irish (2016-2021), this collection examines the celebration of Christmas among the Irish, from the seventh century to the present day. In 75 articles, ranging from the serious to the light-hearted, writers from a range of academic disciplines and professions – Anthropology, Celtic Studies, Education, Folklore, Healthcare, History, Journalism, Literature, Media, and Broadcasting, Pastoral Ministry, Philosophy and Theology – reflect on what Christmas has meant to Irish people through the ages, whether living at home or abroad.
Topics covered in this volume include: the theme of light in early Irish texts; festive feasting and fighting in the Middle Ages; the Kilmore carols of County Wexford; the history of Irish Christmas food through the centuries; crimes of Christmas past; Christmas on the Blasket Islands; the claim that ‘Santa’s Grave’ is in County Kilkenny; why Irish missionaries in Zimbabwe regularly missed out on their Christmas dinner; the origins and early life of the Late Late Toy Show; a Christmas surprise among Irish peacekeepers in the Lebanon; Christmas customs among the Travelling Community; Christmas and the Irish Jewish community; the Wren Boys; ‘Women’s Christmas’; Irish links to popular Christmas carols; Christmas and James Joyce; the curious custom of reciting 4,000 Hail Marys in the lead up to Christmas, and why it became an established tradition for the Viceroy to send a woodcock to the British monarch every Christmas.
This anthology will prove a fascinating read for all who are interested in the social, cultural, and religious history of Ireland, but, more importantly, will delight all who love Christmas itself
What emerges is a reflection on the theme of reform within the Church: what it has meant in the past, what it means for us now; and what it might mean in the future.
The chronological span and multidisciplinary nature of the contributions in this volume attest to the breadth of Raymond Gillespie’s curiosity, interests, expertise and influence, which have always transcended conventional boundaries.
Terence Dooley is Professor of History (Maynooth University), Mary Ann Lyons is Professor of History (Maynooth University) and Salvador Ryan is Professor of Ecclesiastical History (Pontifical University, St Patrick’s College Maynooth).
https://www.fourcourtspress.ie/books/new-year-folder/the-historian-as-detective/
1. Contributors may write about any aspect of the history of pregnancy, birth, and the early stages after birth, among the Irish (at home or abroad) from the earliest centuries to the present day.
2. The volume will be truly interdisciplinary, including submissions from the fields of history, geography, folklore, anthropology, theology, sociology, obstetrics, midwifery, literature, gender studies, etc.
3. Contributions should be in the region of 1,200 to 1,300 words.
4. They should be typed in Word, in Times New Roman font, at 1.5 spacing.
5. They should be aimed at a general, but also informed reader.
6. Contributions will not feature footnotes. Instead, the main sources for the piece can be mentioned in a brief "Further Reading" section at the end of the article, and this should include 3-5 bibliographic / archival references max.
7. Proposals of topics may be sent to [email protected] by Friday 25 October 2019.
8. Deadline for submissions of completed contributions to [email protected] is Thursday 5 December 2019.
9. The format will follow that already used in previous volumes. Further information on the first two volumes can be found through the links below:
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10. This volume, like previous volumes, will be illustrated, and so high-res images (no less than 300dpi), with relevant copyright and reproduction rights already cleared, are very welcome.
In eighty articles written by seventy-five contributors, scholars from a range of academic disciplines, including History, Art History, Celtic Studies, English Literature, Theology, Sociology, Archival Studies, and Folklore, along with practitioners working in both religious and humanist ministries, reflect on Irish marriages over the centuries, both at home and among the Irish diaspora.
Topics covered include:
Early Irish law concerning marriage; secrets of the medieval Irish bed; why romantic trysts in churches had become so common in the later Middle Ages; 16th century Irish court cases concerning impotence, drunkenness, and dowries; domestic violence in early modern Ireland; the ‘oldest bishop in Christendom’ and his eighteen-year-old wife; a case of bigamy among the Irish in 17th century Portugal; clandestine marriages; mixed marriages; a runaway romance in mid-nineteenth-century Sydney; the 19th century honeymoon; murder at a wedding in Knocknamuckly in 1888; the tale of the aristocrat and the actress; marriages during the First World War; marriage and the introduction of the children’s allowance; marriage divination; marriage in Irish folklore; weddings among Dublin’s 20th century Jewish community; desertion and divorce ‘Irish-style’; marriage among Presbyterian and Methodist communities in Ireland; weddings and the Travelling community; finding one’s future spouse in the Farmer’s Journal; the Woman’s Way guide to successful marriages in 1960s’ Ireland; humanist weddings; the introduction of marriage equality; and much more.
This anthology will serve as an indispensable resource for anyone interested in the social, cultural, religious and legal history of Ireland and will ensure that you will never think of Irish marriage in the same way again.
In eighty articles written by seventy-five contributors, scholars from a range of academic disciplines, including History, Art History, Celtic Studies, English Literature, Theology, Sociology, Archival Studies, and Folklore, along with practitioners working in both religious and humanist ministries, reflect on Irish marriages over the centuries, both at home and among the Irish diaspora.
Topics covered include:
Early Irish law concerning marriage; secrets of the medieval Irish bed; why romantic trysts in churches had become so common in the later Middle Ages; 16th century Irish court cases concerning impotence, drunkenness, and dowries; domestic violence in early modern Ireland; the ‘oldest bishop in Christendom’ and his eighteen-year-old wife; a case of bigamy among the Irish in 17th century Portugal; clandestine marriages; mixed marriages; a runaway romance in mid-nineteenth-century Sydney; the 19th century honeymoon; murder at a wedding in Knocknamuckly in 1888; the tale of the aristocrat and the actress; marriages during the First World War; marriage and the introduction of the children’s allowance; marriage divination; marriage in Irish folklore; weddings among Dublin’s 20th century Jewish community; desertion and divorce ‘Irish-style’; marriage among Presbyterian and Methodist communities in Ireland; weddings and the Travelling community; finding one’s future spouse in the Farmer’s Journal; the Woman’s Way guide to successful marriages in 1960s’ Ireland; humanist weddings; the introduction of marriage equality; and much more.
This anthology will serve as an indispensable resource for anyone interested in the social, cultural, religious and legal history of Ireland and will ensure that you will never think of Irish marriage in the same way again.
This Special Issue of Religions will focus on lived religion and devotional practices as found in the domestic settings of medieval and early modern Europe. More particularly, it will investigate to what degree the experience of personal or familial religious practice in the domestic realm and the more public expression of faith in liturgical or communal settings intersected.
In choosing this theme, this Special Issue wishes to build on the significant research that has been undertaken in recent years on domestic devotion in the early modern period, most notably the volumes produced by the ERC-funded interdisciplinary project Domestic Devotions: The Place of Piety in the Italian Renaissance Home, but also in other studies such as Jessica Martin and Alec Ryrie (eds), Private and Domestic Devotion in Early Modern Britain (Farnham: Ashgate, 2012) and Domestic Devotions in Early Modern Italy, ed. Maya Corry, Marco Faini and Alessia Meneghin (Leiden: Brill, 2018). More broadly, in 2014 the Ecclesiastical History Society chose for its 50th volume of Studies in Church History the theme Religion and the Household, which contains, among others, at least twelve contributions on the early modern period.
The specific topic of medieval domestic devotion has been slower to generate significant treatments such as those mentioned above, although there have been fine edited collections such as Defining the Holy: Sacred Space in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, ed. Andrew Spicer and Sarah Hamilton (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005), which contain a number of medieval essays, and helpful article contributions by Jennifer Kolpacoff Deane (‘”Medieval Domestic Devotion”, History Compass 11:1 (2013)) and others. This issue aims to respond, in part, to the final section of this article, which sets out some directions for future research. Therefore, it especially welcomes contributors who may wish to consider the relationship between domestic religious practice across medieval Christianity, Judaism and Islam, or to focus in particular on any one of the three faiths. Elisheva Baumgarten’s Practicing Piety in Medieval Ashkenaz (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014) and Megan H. Reid’s Law and Piety in Medieval Islam (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013) serve as excellent exemplars of this kind of study. While certainly welcoming contributions on early modern domestic devotion, it is nevertheless hoped that a significant number of the essays gathered in this collection will shed much-needed light on this topic within the broad field of medieval studies.
This Special Issue also wishes to broaden the geographical range of enquiry: thus, while we welcome contributors writing on Western Europe, articles which examine aspects of domestic devotion in Central and Eastern Europe are particularly encouraged to submit proposals.
Topics which might be covered include: books of hours and their use; the domestication of devotion to public images through the production of printed replicas for households; the construction of sacred space in the home; the use of candles, icons, relics, prayer mats, altars, pilgrimage badges, agnus deis, holy water; the communal reading of religious or devotional texts; the practice of fasting; the recitation of prophylactic prayers and the gestures associated with them; the portrayal of domestic devotion in saints’ lives; didactic tracts and their instructions regarding the practice of faith in the home; the adoption of liturgical elements into domestic religious practice, etc.
Prof. Dr. Salvador Ryan
Guest Editor
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Keywords
Late medieval Christianity
Lived religion
Domestic devotion
Materiality
Icons
Relics
Religious art
Household
Liturgy
Hagiography
Books of hours
Devotional reading
History of the emotions
Published Papers
This special issue is now open for submission.
In choosing this theme, this Special Issue wishes to build on the significant research that has been undertaken in recent years on domestic devotion in the early modern period, most notably the volumes produced by the ERC-funded interdisciplinary project Domestic Devotions: The Place of Piety in the Italian Renaissance Home, but also in other studies such as Jessica Martin and Alec Ryrie (eds), Private and Domestic Devotion in Early Modern Britain (Farnham: Ashgate, 2012) and Domestic Devotions in Early Modern Italy, ed. Maya Corry, Marco Faini and Alessia Meneghin (Leiden: Brill, 2018). More broadly, in 2014 the Ecclesiastical History Society chose for its 50th volume of Studies in Church History the theme Religion and the Household, which contains, among others, at least twelve contributions on the early modern period.
The specific topic of medieval domestic devotion has been slower to generate significant treatments such as those mentioned above, although there have been fine edited collections such as Defining the Holy: Sacred Space in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, ed. Andrew Spicer and Sarah Hamilton (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005), which contain a number of medieval essays, and helpful article contributions by Jennifer Kolpacoff Deane (‘”Medieval Domestic Devotion”, History Compass 11:1 (2013)) and others. This issue aims to respond, in part, to the final section of this article, which sets out some directions for future research. Therefore, it especially welcomes contributors who may wish to consider the relationship between domestic religious practice across medieval Christianity, Judaism and Islam, or to focus in particular on any one of the three faiths. Elisheva Baumgarten’s Practicing Piety in Medieval Ashkenaz (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014) and Megan H. Reid’s Law and Piety in Medieval Islam (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013) serve as excellent exemplars of this kind of study.
This Special Issue also wishes to broaden the geographical range of enquiry: thus, while we welcome contributors writing on Western Europe, articles which examine aspects of domestic devotion in Central and Eastern Europe are particularly encouraged to submit proposals.
Topics which might be covered include: books of hours and their use; the domestication of devotion to public images through the production of printed replicas for households; the construction of sacred space in the home; the use of candles, icons, relics, prayer mats, altars, pilgrimage badges, agnus deis, holy water; the communal reading of religious or devotional texts; the practice of fasting; the recitation of prophylactic prayers and the gestures associated with them; the portrayal of domestic devotion in saints’ lives; didactic tracts and their instructions regarding the practice of faith in the home; the adoption of liturgical elements into domestic religious practice, etc.
For further information on how to submit a proposal, paste the following link into your browser:
http://www.mdpi.com/journal/religions/special_issues/devotion