‘The Devout Belief of the Imagination’
The Paris 'Meditationes Vitae Christi' and Female Franciscan Spirituality in Trecento Italy
By (author) Holly Flora
This volume examines the late medieval devotional text Meditationes Vitae Christi through an analysis of its most important manuscript, known by its present location and catalogue number as Paris Bibliotheque Nationale Ms. ital. 115. As Flora argues, Ms. ital. 115, the oldest and most extensively illustrated copy of the Meditationes, was originally made in or near Pisa circa 1350 and tailored very specifically for a group of Franciscan nuns. Flora proposes the manuscript’s probable uses in practices of performative devotion and affective response, and the relationship between its imagery and other works of art made for religious women, shedding new light on the history of female monasticism in medieval Italy.
- By (author) Holly Flora
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The Death Ritual at Cluny in the Central Middle Ages / Le rituel de la mort a Cluny au Moyen age central
Volume 9
Consuetudines et Regulae
Sources for Monastic Life in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period
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Western Monasticism ante litteram
The Spaces of Monastic Observance in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
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Saint-Benigne de Dijon en l’an mil, ‘totius Galliae basilicis mirabilior’
Interpretation politique, liturgique et theologique
Volume 5
Walls and Memory
The Abbey of San Sebastiano at Alatri (Lazio), from Late Roman Monastery to Renaissance Villa and Beyond
Volume 2
From Dead of Night to End of Day
The Medieval Customs of Cluny: Du coeur de la nuit a la fin du jour: les coutumes clunisiennes au Moyen Age
Volume 3
Assistenza, ospitalità e ospedali presso monasteri e canoniche regolari del medioevo europeo: l’ospedale di Sant’Andrea di Vercelli in contesto
Care, Hospitality and Hospitals in Monasteries and Houses of Regular Canons in Medieval Europe: The Hospital of Sant’Andrea in Vercelli in Context
Volume 15
The Pursuit of Salvation
Community, Space, and Discipline in Early Medieval Monasticism: With a critical edition and translation of the Regula cuiusdam ad uirgines
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