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 studied at Cambridge and Kiel and has been Reader in Medieval and Early Modern German Literature at Cambridge since 2013. As well as essays on medieval literature, poetics, and devotional and pastoral writing, he has published two books on the Tristan romance of Gottfried von Strassburg, and is co-editor of the digital edition of the Kaiserchronik, one of the first verse chronicles of universal history in any European vernacular.

Summary

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

Additional text

Studies which range from the late medieval to the early modern are notoriously difficult to write. Chinca has succeeded admirably well, by producing a densely written yet eloquent and indeed elegant study which lives up to its great promise.

Product details

• Authors: Mark Chinca, Mark (Professor of Medieval German and Com Chinca, Chinca Mark
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.06.2020
• EAN: 9780198861980
• ISBN: 978-0-19-886198-0
• No. of pages: 316
• Series: Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture
• 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