Meditating Death in Medieval and Early Modern Devotional Writing - From Bonaventure to Luther

The first book-length study of the practice of meditating on death and the afterlife in medieval and early modern culture.

List of contents

• Introduction: Memorare novissima tua


• 1: Monastic Meditation Transformed: The Spiritual Exercises of Bonaventure


• 2: Out of this World: Seeing the Afterlife in the Somme le Roi


• 3: Touching Eternity: The Practice of Death in Heinrich Seuse


• 4: Rewriting the Text of the Soul: In and Around the Devotio Moderna


• 5: Grace, Faith, Scripture, Spirit: Lutheran Transformations


• Conclusion: Last Things and First Philosophy

About the author

MARK CHINCA is Professor of Medieval German and Comparative Literature at the University of Cambridge. Author of books and essays on poetics, fiction, and metaphor in medieval writing, he is also co-editor of the digital edition of the Kaiserchronik (2019) and (with Christopher Young) Literary Beginnings in the European Middle Ages (2022).

Summary

The first book-length study of the practice of meditating on death and the afterlife in medieval and early modern culture.

Product details

• Authors: Mark Chinca, Mark (Professor of Medieval German and Com Chinca, Chinca Mark
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.12.2023
• EAN: 9780198907923
• ISBN: 978-0-19-890792-3
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; RELIGION / History, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric, History of Religion, History of art: Byzantine & Medieval art c 500 CE to c 1400, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, ART / History / European / Medieval