RT Article
T1 Delightful Fruits and Bitter Weeds: Textual Consumption and Spiritual Identity in The Orcherd of Syon
JF Journal of medieval religious cultures
VO 48
IS 1
SP 45
OP 67
A1 Alakas, Brandon
LA English
YR 2022
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1785385259
AB Prologues at the beginning of The Orcherd of Syon, which reimagine sCatherine of Siena’s Dialogo as a garden through which readers stroll, promote a material understanding of reading rooted in a complex notion of what occurred when devout readers encountered contemplative texts. These horticultural metaphors merit careful attention because they align Birgittine meditative reading with broader approaches among female religious toward food practice, the material world, and imitatio. Drawing these discourses together, The Orcherd, this article argues, offers readers an opportunity to communicate directly with God in a way akin to visionaries and prophets.
K1 Birgitta of Sweden
K1 Catherine of Siena
K1 female mysticism
K1 DEVOTIONAL READING
K1 The Orcherd of Syon
K1 Syon Abbey