Meditating death in medieval and early modern devotional writing: from Bonaventure to Luther
Introduction: Memorare novissima tua; 1:Monastic Meditation Transformed: The Spiritual Exercises of Bonaventure; 2:Out of this World: Seeing the Afterlife in the Somme le Roi; 3:Touching Eternity: The Practice of Death in Heinrich Seuse; 4:Rewriting the Text of the Soul: In and Around the Devotio Mo...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2023
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| In: | Year: 2023 |
| Edition: | First published in paperback 2023 |
| Series/Journal: | Oxford studies in medieval literature and culture
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Europe
/ Christian literature
/ Death (Motif)
/ Eschatology
/ History 1200-1600
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| Summary: | Introduction: Memorare novissima tua; 1:Monastic Meditation Transformed: The Spiritual Exercises of Bonaventure; 2:Out of this World: Seeing the Afterlife in the Somme le Roi; 3:Touching Eternity: The Practice of Death in Heinrich Seuse; 4:Rewriting the Text of the Soul: In and Around the Devotio Moderna; 5:Grace, Faith, Scripture, Spirit: Lutheran Transformations; Conclusion: Last Things and First Philosophy |
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| Item Description: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 263-290 Meditating about death and the afterlife was one of the most important techniques that Christian societies in medieval and early modern Europe had at their disposal for developing a sense of individual selfhood. Believers who regularly and systematically reflected on the inevitability of death and the certainty of eternal punishment in hell or reward in heaven would acquire an understanding of themselves as a unique persons defined by their moral actions; they would also learn to discipline themselves by feeling remorse for their sins, doing penance, and cultivating a permanent vigilance over their future thoughts and deeds. This book covers a crucial period in the formation and transformation of the technique of meditating on death: from the thirteenth century, when a practice that had mainly been the preserve of a monastic elite began to be more widely disseminated among all segments of Christian society, to the sixteenth, when the Protestant Reformation transformed the technique of spiritual exercise into a bible-based mindfulness that avoided the stigma of works piety. It discusses the textual instructions for meditation as well as the theories and beliefs and doctrines that lay behind them; the sources are Latin and vernacular and enjoyed widespread circulation in Roman Christian and Protestant Europe during the period under consideration |
| ISBN: | 0198861982 |