Virtual voyage to Loreto : how to visit the Holy House in Spirit (seventeenth-eighteenth centuries)

In Roman Catholic thought, the house of religious imagination has many mansions. Jean Gerson and Ignatius of Loyola recommended 'composition of place': employing the imagination to furnish all the details of a setting in which one observes and shares in the sufferings of Jesus or the Virgin Mary. Matteo Ricci advocated the construction of a 'memory palace': locating images representing religious figures, events, and doctrines in specific places within a building, where at a later time they could easily be retrieved. This paper, a tribute to Duane Osheim's most recent interest, concerns a third way of using the religious imagination: thinking one's way into a site of pilgrimage unfeasible to visit in person, the Holy House at Loreto.peer-reviewe

'If You Desire to Enjoy Life, Avoid Unpunctual People': Women, Timetabling and Domestic Advice, 1850–1910

In the second half of the nineteenth century domestic advice manuals applied the language of modern, public time management to the private sphere. This article uses domestic advice and cookery books, including Isabella Beeton's Book of Household Management, to argue that women in the home operated within multiple, overlapping temporalities that incorporated daily, annual, linear and cyclical scales. I examine how seasonal and annual timescales coexisted with the ticking clock of daily time as a framework within which women were instructed to organize their lives in order to conclude that the increasing concern of advice writers with matters of timekeeping and punctuality towards the end of the nineteenth century indicates not the triumph of 'clock time' but rather its failure to overturn other ways of thinking about and using time