Practice, Process, and Performance: Shaping a Devotional Habitus in the Margins of Bernard of Clairvaux's "Sermons on the Song of Songs"

Illustrations and annotation in the margins of manuscripts can offer unique insights into the medieval reading experience. This article explores how Douai, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 373, a manuscript containing Bernard of Clairvaux's Sermones super Cantica canticorum, produced and read in lat...

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Autore principale: Smits, Lieke Andrea (Autore)
Tipo di documento: Elettronico Articolo
Lingua:Inglese
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Pubblicazione: [2021]
In: Journal of medieval religious cultures
Anno: 2021, Volume: 47, Fascicolo: 1, Pagine: 1-20
Notazioni IxTheo:CB Esistenza cristiana
KAE Pieno Medioevo
KBF Isole Britanniche
KCA Ordine religioso
RE Omiletica
Altre parole chiave:B marginal illustrations
B Performativity
B devotional practice
B Bridal Mysticism
B monastic theology
B reading experience
B Habitus
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Riepilogo:Illustrations and annotation in the margins of manuscripts can offer unique insights into the medieval reading experience. This article explores how Douai, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 373, a manuscript containing Bernard of Clairvaux's Sermones super Cantica canticorum, produced and read in late medieval England, facilitates and reflects a performative mode of reading. While a movement from reading to bodily performance is suggested, this article argues that the opposite movement is also encouraged, as part of a nonlinear mode of reading in which images function both as a starting point and as a point of return for devotional practice.
ISSN:2153-9650
Comprende:Enthalten in: Journal of medieval religious cultures
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.5325/jmedirelicult.47.1.0001