The Exercise of the Imagination in Jan Mombaer's Rosetum
This article aims to investigate the role of the imagination in late medieval meditative practices, focusing on the Rosetum exercitiorum spiritualium et sacrarum meditationum by Jan Mombaer (c. 1460-1501), a canon regular of the congregation of Windesheim, the monastic branch of the Modern Devotion....
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2024
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Ons geestelijk erf
Year: 2024, Volume: 94, Issue: 1/3, Pages: 41-66 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CB Christian life; spirituality KAF Church history 1300-1500; late Middle Ages KBD Benelux countries KCA Monasticism; religious orders |
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| Summary: | This article aims to investigate the role of the imagination in late medieval meditative practices, focusing on the Rosetum exercitiorum spiritualium et sacrarum meditationum by Jan Mombaer (c. 1460-1501), a canon regular of the congregation of Windesheim, the monastic branch of the Modern Devotion. Through a close reading of the Rosetum exercises involving the imagination and a lexical analysis of the term ‘imagination’ and its derivatives, the paper clarifies the meanings and uses of this faculty in the context of meditation. This approach allows to go beyond the stereotype of the distrust of the imagination, commonly associated with the Middle Ages, and offers a more refined understanding of this concept. The article starts with an examination of Mombaer’s view of the imagination. It then elucidates the role of the imagination in the meditative process based on exercises from the Rosetum, and demonstrates how ethical ends command the exercise of this faculty. |
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| ISSN: | 1783-1652 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Ons geestelijk erf
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2143/OGE.94.1.3293962 |
