Editorial: Pennsylvania State University Press
Número de páginas: 168 págs.
Fecha de edición: 30-04-2024
EAN: 9780271095639
ISBN: 978-0-271-09563-9
Precio (sin IVA): 105,57 €
Precio (IVA incluído): 109,79 €
In this volume, Denva Gallant examines the Morgan Library’s richly illustrated manuscript of the Vitae patrum (MS M.626), whose extraordinary artworks witness the rise of the eremitic ideal and its impact on the visual culture of late medieval Italy. Drawing upon scholarship on the history of psychology, eastern monasticism, gender, and hagiography, Gallant deepens our understanding of the centrality of the Desert Fathers and Mothers to late medieval piety. She provides important insights into the role of images in making the practices of the desert saints both compelling and accessible to fourteenth-century city dwellers, who were just beginning to cultivate the habit of private devotion on a wide scale.