Reading in the wilderness private devotion and public performance in late medieval England /

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Hoofdauteur: Brantley, Jessica
Coauteur: ebrary, Inc
Formaat: Elektronisch E-boek
Taal:Engels
Gepubliceerd in: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.
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Inhoudsopgave:
  • Introduction: The performance of reading
  • "Silence visible" : Carthusian devotional reading and meditative practice
  • Backgrounds : the Carthusian Order
  • Carthusians and books
  • Carthusians and art
  • The shapes of eremitic reading in the desert of religion : the desert of religion as imagetext
  • "ALS wildernes is wroght þis boke" : formats of monastic books
  • Reading spiritual community in the wilderness
  • Lyric imaginings and painted prayers
  • The eremitic lyric and Richard Rolle
  • Imagining the Carthusian reader
  • Liturgical pageantry in private spaces
  • Reading the liturgy : two models
  • Performing the holy name
  • Performing the canonical hours
  • Performing the seven sacraments
  • Envisioning dialogue in performance
  • "In maner of a dyaloge it wente"
  • Allegorical dialogues : the pylgremage of the soul
  • Mystical dialogues : the treatise of the seven points
  • Dramatizing the cell : theatrical performances in monastic reading
  • Dramatic texts, lyric voices, and private readers
  • Theatrical reading in additional 37049
  • Monastic closet drama
  • Conclusion: Reading performances.