TY - BOOK AU - Enenkel,K.A.E. AU - Melion,Walter S. TI - Meditatio: refashioning the self : theory and practice in late medieval and early modern intellectual culture T2 - Intersections SN - 9789004210561 AV - BV4813 .M38 2011eb U1 - 248.3/40940902 22 PY - 2011/// CY - Leiden, Boston PB - Brill KW - Meditation KW - Christianity KW - History KW - Congresses KW - Méditation KW - Christianisme KW - Histoire KW - Congrès KW - RELIGION KW - Meditations KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - proceedings (reports) KW - aat KW - Conference papers and proceedings KW - lcgft KW - Actes de congrès KW - rvmgf N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; pt. 1. Meditatio and refashioning the self in literature, 1300-1600 -- pt. 2. Religious meditation in the late medieval and early modern theology -- pt. 3. Exercitia spiriutalia : meditation and the Jesuits -- pt. 4. Religious meditation in the visual arts, 13th-17th century N2 - 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 in UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=368149 ER -