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Furnishing Piety: Beds in High Medieval Jewish Domestic Devotion

doi: 10.3390/rel10080471
Furnishing Piety: Beds in High Medieval Jewish Domestic Devotion
In recent years, pre-modern beds have generated extensive scholarly interest. Their social, religious, and economic importance has been rightfully highlighted in the study of domestic piety. Yet, concern has primarily focused on beds in late medieval English homes. This essay uses Hebrew texts from thirteenth-century Southern Germany, primarily Sefer Hasidim, to further this analysis of the role of the bed in shaping medieval domestic devotion. Jewish notions about the social, moral, and sexual significance of the bed reflect those identified in late medieval Christian culture. These ideas inspired numerous rituals practiced in Jewish homes. Yet, the bed and the remnants of sex assumed to be found in it also frustrated Jewish attempts to perform domestic devotion. These findings highlight the complicated nature of the home and how medieval people had to navigate both its opportunities and challenges in order to foster a rich culture of domestic devotion.
Microsoft Academic Graph classification: History Judaism media_common.quotation_subject Religious studies Order (virtue) media_common Hebrew Family life language.human_language Piety language Christian culture
Library of Congress Subject Headings: lcsh:BL1-2790 lcsh:Religions. Mythology. Rationalism
<i>Sefer Hasidim</i>, bedtime prayers, beds, domestic piety, Religious studies, medieval Ashkenaz, family life, domestic piety; medieval Ashkenaz; beds; Sefer Hasidim; bedtime prayers; family life
<i>Sefer Hasidim</i>, bedtime prayers, beds, domestic piety, Religious studies, medieval Ashkenaz, family life, domestic piety; medieval Ashkenaz; beds; Sefer Hasidim; bedtime prayers; family life
Microsoft Academic Graph classification: History Judaism media_common.quotation_subject Religious studies Order (virtue) media_common Hebrew Family life language.human_language Piety language Christian culture
Library of Congress Subject Headings: lcsh:BL1-2790 lcsh:Religions. Mythology. Rationalism
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- Funder: European Commission (EC)
- Project Code: 681507
- Funding stream: H2020 | ERC | ERC-COG
In recent years, pre-modern beds have generated extensive scholarly interest. Their social, religious, and economic importance has been rightfully highlighted in the study of domestic piety. Yet, concern has primarily focused on beds in late medieval English homes. This essay uses Hebrew texts from thirteenth-century Southern Germany, primarily Sefer Hasidim, to further this analysis of the role of the bed in shaping medieval domestic devotion. Jewish notions about the social, moral, and sexual significance of the bed reflect those identified in late medieval Christian culture. These ideas inspired numerous rituals practiced in Jewish homes. Yet, the bed and the remnants of sex assumed to be found in it also frustrated Jewish attempts to perform domestic devotion. These findings highlight the complicated nature of the home and how medieval people had to navigate both its opportunities and challenges in order to foster a rich culture of domestic devotion.