The series Liturgy and the Vernacular examines late medieval and early modern piety through the relationship between material transmission and social practice, the interplay of various media for text, image, and sound, and the performative dimensions of liturgical and devotional practice. The series defines the relationship between liturgy and vernacular expansively and dynamically. Liturgy may include topics ranging from the mass and office hours to liturgical visions to private prayer. The Vernacular encompasses not only commonly spoken European languages (and their relationship to Latinity) but also regional and local inflections of ritual or visual conventions. Studies focus on the materiality, mediality, and performativity of premodern piety and religious experience to illuminate their specific cultural contexts.
We invite proposals for monographs and collected volumes in English and/or German from scholars at all career stages. All volumes in the series undergo a single-blind review process.
