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Meditatio refashioning the self : theory and practice in late medieval and early modern intellectual culture /

Meditatio refashioning the self : theory and practice in late medieval and early modern intellectual culture / edited by Karl Enenkel and Walter Melion. - 1 online resource. - Brill eBook titles 2011 . - Intersections 17. European History and Culture E-Books Online, Collection 2011, ISBN: 9789004222878. .

Rev. proceedings of a colloquium held in Apr. 2009 at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Introduction: Types And Functions Of Meditation In The Transition From Late Medieval To Early Modern Intellectual Culture / Meditative Frames As Reader’s Guidance In Neo-Latin Texts / Petrarch’s \'Inner Eye\' In The Familiarium Libri XXIV / The Discovery Of The Dialogue In Dutch Medieval Literature: A Discourse For Meditation And Disputation / From Meditation To Reverie: Montaigne And Rousseau / Exscribo Ergo Sum. Self-Reflexion And Meditation In Early Modern German Family Books / Accomplishing One’s Essence: The Role Of Meditation In The Theology Of Gabriel Biel / Twelfth And Sixteenth Century Renaissance Discourses On Meditation And Contemplation. Lefevre D’Etaples’ Commentaries On Richard Of Saint Victor’s Trinity / Die Meditation im Spirituellen Reformprogramm der Devotio Moderna / Love Tricks And Flea-Bitings: Meditation, Imagination And The Pain Of Christ In Joseph Hall And Richard Crashaw / Invisible Contemplation: A Paradox In The Spiritual Exercises / Meditation In The Service Of Catholic Orthodoxy: Peter Canisius’ Notae Evangelicae / Dark Images, Clear Words. Pieter Paet’s Illustrated Devotional Literature From The Missio Hollandica / He Must Increase, But I Must Decrease. On The Spiritual And Pictorial Intertwining Between The Johannesschüssel And The Vera Icon (1200-1500) / Cultivating Piety. Religious Art And Artists After The Council Of Trent / Exegetical Duality As A Meditative Crux In Maarten Van Heemskerck’s Balaam And The Angel In A Panoramic Landscape Of 1554 / Index Nominum / K. A. E. Enenkel and W. Melion -- Karl Enenkel and Walter S. Melion -- Karl A.E. Enenkel -- Jan Papy -- Geert Warnar -- Paul J. Smith -- Wolfgang Neuber -- Diana Stanciu -- Jacob Vance -- Nikolaus Staubach -- Jan Frans Van Dijkhuizen -- Wietse De Boer -- Hilmar M. Pabel -- Feike Dietz -- Barbara Baert -- Jan L. De Jong -- Walter S. Melion -- K. A. E. Enenkel and W. Melion.

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The late medieval and early modern period is a particularly interesting chapter in the development of meditation and self-reflection. Meditation may best be described as a self-imposed disciplinary regime, consisting of mental and physical exercises that allowed the practitioner to engender and evaluate his self-image, and thence to emend and refashion it. The volume aims at examining the forms and functions, ways and means of meditation from c. 1300 to c. 1600. It tries to analyze the internal exercises that mobilized the sensitive faculties of motion, emotion, and sense (both external and internal) and the intellective faculties of reason, memory, and will, with a view to reforming the soul, and the techniques of visualization that were frequently utilized to engage the soul’s mediating function as vinculum mundi , its pivotal position in the great chain of being between heaven and earth, temporal and spiritual experience. Contributors include Barbara Baert, Wietse de Boer, Feike Dietz, Jan Frans van Dijkhuizen, Karl Enenkel, Jan de Jong, Walter Melion, Wolfgang Neuber, Hilmar Pabel, Jan Papy, Paul Smith, Diana Stanciu, Nikolaus Staubach, Jacob Vance, and Geert Warnar.

9789004210561

10.1163/ej.9789004192430.i-440 DOI


Meditation--Christianity--History--Congresses.
Meditation--History--Congresses.

BV4813 / .M38 2011

248.3/40940902