The Artificiality of Christianity: Essays on the Poetics of Monasticism. By M. B. Pranger. Pp. xviii + 332. (Figurae. Reading Medieval Culture.) Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2003. isbn 0 8047 4524 2. £50.50
The book under review is made up of 15 thematically related essays on Western monastic literature from the early Middle Ages to the Counter-Reformation; they are grouped under three headings: ‘Violence’, ‘Density’, ‘Exile’. The two authors chiefly in evidence are Sts Bernard of Clairvaux and Anselm...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2005
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2005, Volume: 56, Issue: 2, Pages: 718-719 |
| Review of: | The artificiality of Christianity (Stanford, Calif. : Stanford Univ. Press, 2003) (Casiday, Augustine)
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| Summary: | The book under review is made up of 15 thematically related essays on Western monastic literature from the early Middle Ages to the Counter-Reformation; they are grouped under three headings: ‘Violence’, ‘Density’, ‘Exile’. The two authors chiefly in evidence are Sts Bernard of Clairvaux and Anselm of Canterbury (for the first two groups, respectively); also coming in for evaluation are works by Peter the Venerable, Calvin, Ignatius of Loyola, and John of the Cross (for the third group). When Pranger describes these essays as being on the ‘poetics’ of this literature, what seems to be meant is that they are chiefly concerned to bring into focus certain stylistic elements that are then related to modern literature. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/fli200 |