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Meditatio : refashioning the self : theory and practice in late medieval and early modern intellectual culture / edited by Karl Enenkel and Walter Melion.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Intersections (Boston, Mass.) ; v. 17.Publication details: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.Description: 1 online resource (xx, 439 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9789004210561
  • 9004210563
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Meditatio.DDC classification:
  • 248.3/40940902 22
LOC classification:
  • BV4813 .M38 2011eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)368149

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.

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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 in.

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