Mancia Meditation and Prayer in the Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Monastery

Struggling towards God
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-80270-107-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 120 Seiten

Reihe: Spirituality and Monasticism, East and West

Explores the dimensions of medieval monastic meditation, prayer, and contemplation in the heyday of Benedictine and Cistercian spiritual writing, the eleventh and twelfth centuries.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mancia, Lauren

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Mittelalterliche, neuzeitliche Archäologie (Europa)
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Sonstige Religionen Religiöse Institutionen & Gemeinschaften, Klerus, Mönchstum

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter One: What Were “Meditation” and “Prayer” in the Medieval Monastery? Chapter Two: The Journey to God through Meditation and Prayer, according to Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Monastic Thinkers Chapter Three: From Theory to Practice: The Experience of Monastic Meditation and Prayer in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries Chapter Four: Envisioning the Invisible: The Use of Art in Monastic Meditation Conclusion Select English-Language Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Mancia Lauren:
Lauren Mancia is Associate Professor of History at Brooklyn College, City University of New York. She is the author of Emotional Monasticism: Affective Piety in the Eleventh-Century Monastery of John of Fécamp (2019).