Meditatio - Refashioning the Self

Theory and Practice in Late Medieval and Early Modern Intellectual Culture
Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-90-04-19243-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 17, 444 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 885 g

Reihe: Intersections

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.

Zielgruppe

Interdisciplinary academic readership, interested in the early modern period, especially in the history of religion, theology, cultural history, literary criticism, and art history.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Enenkel, Karl A. E..

Melion, Walter

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionssoziologie und -psychologie, Spiritualität, Mystik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

I. MEDITATIO AND REFASHIONING THE SELF IN LITERATURE, 1300-1600

Meditative Frames as Reader’s Guidance in Neo-Latin Texts
KARL ENENKEL

Petrarch’s “Inner Eye” in the Familiarium libri XXIV
JAN PAPY

The Discovery of the Dialogue in Medieval Dutch Literature. A Discourse for Meditation and Disputation
GEERT WARNAR

From Meditation to Reverie: Montaigne and Rousseau
PAUL SMITH

Exscribo ergo sum. Self-Reflexion and Meditiation in Early Modern German Family Books
WOLFGANG NEUBER


II. RELIGIOUS MEDITATION IN LATE MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN THEOLOGY

Accomplishing one’s Essence: the Role of Meditation in the Theology of Gabriel Biel
DIANA STANCIU

Twelfth and Sixteenth Century Discourses on Meditation and Contemplation. Lefevre d’Etaples’ Commentaries on Richard of Saint Victor’s De Trinitate
JACOB VANCE

Die Meditation im spirituellen Reformprogramm der Devotio Moderna
NIKOLAUS STAUBACH

Love Tricks and Flea-Bitings: Meditation, Imagination and the Pain of Christ in Joseph Hall and Richard Crawshaw
JAN FRANS VAN DIJKHUIZEN


III. EXERCITIA SPIRITUALIA: MEDITATION AND THE JESUITS

Invisible Contemplation: a Paradox in the Spiritual Exercises
WIETSE DE BOER

Meditation in the Service of Catholic Orthodoxy: Peter Canisius’ Notae Evangelicae
HILMAR PABEL

Dark Images, Clear Words. Pieter Paets’s Illustrated Devotional Literature from the Missio Hollandica
FEIKE DIETZ


IV. RELIGIOUS MEDITATION IN THE VISUAL ARTS, 13TH – 17TH CENTURY

He Must Increase, but I Must Decrease. On the Spiritual and Pictorial Intertwining between the Johannesschüssel and the Vera Icon (1200-1500)
BARBARA BAERT

Cultivating Piety. Religious Art and Artists After the Council of Trent
JAN L. DE JONG

Exegetical Duality as a Meditative Crux in Maarten van Heemskerck’s Balaam and the Angel in a Panoramic Landscape of 1554
WALTER S. MELION

Über Autor(innen)

Melion, Walter
Walter S. Melion, Ph.D. (1988) in Art History, University of California, Berkeley, is Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Art History at Emory University in Atlanta. He has published extensively on Dutch and Flemish art and art theory of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. His books include Shaping the Netherlandish Canon: Karel van Mander's 'Schilder-Boeck' (University of Chicago, 1991) and The Meditative Art: Studies in the Northern Devotional Print (Saint Joseph's University, 2009).

Enenkel, Karl A. E..
Karl A.E. Enenkel, Ph.D. (Leiden, 1990) is Professor of Medieval and Neo-Latin Literature at the University of Münster, Germany, and member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). He has published on international Humanism, the reception of Classical Antiquity, the history of ideas, literary genres and emblem studies.

Karl A.E. Enenkel, Ph.D. (Leiden, 1990) is Professor of Medieval and Neo-Latin Literature at the University of Münster, Germany, and member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). He has published on international Humanism, the reception of Classical Antiquity, the history of ideas, literary genres and emblem studies.

Walter S. Melion, Ph.D. (1988) in Art History, University of California, Berkeley, is Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Art History at Emory University in Atlanta. He has published extensively on Dutch and Flemish art and art theory of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. His books include Shaping the Netherlandish Canon: Karel van Mander's 'Schilder-Boeck' (University of Chicago, 1991) and The Meditative Art: Studies in the Northern Devotional Print (Saint Joseph's University, 2009).