Meditations on the life of Christ: the short Italian text
The Meditations on the Life of Christ was the most popular and influential devotional work of the later Middle Ages. With its lively dialogue and narrative realism, its poignant and moving depictions of the Nativity and Passion, and its direct appeals to the reader to feel love and compassion, the M...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English Italian |
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Notre Dame, Indiana
University of Notre Dame Press
[2018]
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The William and Katherine Devers series in Dante and Medieval Italian literature (volume 14)
Year: 2018 |
| Series/Journal: | The William and Katherine Devers series in Dante and Medieval Italian literature
volume 14 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Meditationes vitae Christi
/ Jesus Christus
/ Meditation
/ Biography
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| IxTheo Classification: | NBA Dogmatics NBF Christology |
| Further subjects: | B
Jesus Christ
Meditations
Biography
B Jesus Christ Biography Meditations B Spring |
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| Summary: | The Meditations on the Life of Christ was the most popular and influential devotional work of the later Middle Ages. With its lively dialogue and narrative realism, its poignant and moving depictions of the Nativity and Passion, and its direct appeals to the reader to feel love and compassion, the Meditations had a major impact on devotional practices, religious art, meditative literature, vernacular drama, and the cultivation of affective experience.This volume is a critical edition, with English translation and commentary, of a hitherto-unpublished Italian text that McNamer argues is likely to be the original version of this influential masterpiece |
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| Item Description: | Contains the Italian text of Bodleian Library MS. Canon. Ital. 174 and English translation. Scholars dispute whether Meditationes vitae Christi originated as a Latin or Italian text Includes bibliographical references and index Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke |
| ISBN: | 0268102856 |