Editorial: Oxford University Press
Colección: Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture
Número de páginas: 320 págs. 23.4 x 15.6 cm
Fecha de edición: 21-12-2023
EAN: 9780198907923
ISBN: 978-0-19-890792-3
Precio (sin IVA): 40,12 €
Precio (IVA incluído): 41,72 €
This book covers a crucial period in the formation and transformation of the technique of meditating on death: from the thirteenth century, when a practice that had mainly been the preserve of a monastic elite began to be more widely disseminated among all segments of Christian society, to the sixteenth, when the Protestant Reformation transformed the technique of spiritual exercise into a bible-based mindfulness that avoided the stigma of works piety. It discusses the textual instructions for meditation as well as the theories and beliefs and doctrines that lay behind them; the sources are Latin and vernacular and enjoyed widespread circulation in Roman Christian and Protestant Europe during the period under consideration.