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Reading in the wilderness private devotion and public performance in late medieval England / by Brantley, Jessica

Table of Contents: “…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.…”
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A new history of penance

Table of Contents: “…Emmet McLaughlin -- The historiography of early medieval penance / Rob Meens -- Juridical administration in the church and pastoral care in late antiquity / Kevin Uhalde -- Spiritual guarantors at penance, baptism, and ordination in the late Antique East / Claudia Rapp -- Topographies of penance in the Latin West (c.800-c.1200) / Dominique Iogna-Prat, translated by Graham Robert Edwards -- Blushing before the judge and physician : moral arbitration in the Carolingian Empire / Abigail Firey -- Cum aliquis venerit ad sacerdotem : penitential experience in the Central Middle Ages / Karen Wagner -- The scholastic turn (1100-1500) penitential theology and law in the schools / Joseph Goering -- Penitential theology and law at the turn of the fifteenth century / Henry Ansgar Kelly -- Between the reality of life and the order of canon law : the Holy Apostolic Penitentiary and the supplications from Norway 1448-1531 / Torstein Jorgensen -- At heresy's door : Borromeo, penance, and confessional boundaries in early modern Europe / Wietse de Boer -- Embracing the 'true relic' of Christ : suffering, penance, and private confession in the thought of Martin Luther / Ronald K. …”
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