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the medieval experience of reading

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During the Middle Ages the act of reading was experienced intensively in the monastic exercise of lectio divina--the prayerful scrutiny of passages of Scripture, "savored" in meditation, memorized, recited, and rediscovered in the reader's own religious life. The rich literary tradition that arose from this culture includes theoretical writings from the Conferences of John Cassian (fifth century) through the twelfth-century treatises of Hugh of St. Victor and the Carthusian Guigo II; it also includes compilations, literary meditations, and scriptural commentary, notably on the Song of Songs. This study brings medievalist research together with modern theoretical reflections on the act of reading in a consolidation of historical scholarship, spirituality, and literary criticism. --Publisher description.

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Cistercian Publications, Liturgical Press
Language
English
Pages
247

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Subjects
Books and reading, History, Bible, Devotional use, Reading, Meditation, Christianity
Times
To 1500
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Table of Contents

Preface. Lectio divinia ; In the monastery ; Reading and exegesis ; Reading beyond reading
Chapter I : Scholarly contexts : ressourcement and research. Ressourcement ; Jean Leclercq ; Henri de Lubac ; Research and practice ; Implications for literary theory
Chapter II : The interpretation of the Scriptures. Letter and spirit ; Origen's On first principles ; Saint Augustine ; Saint Gregory the Great
Chapter III : Reading and meditation. Classical education ; The conversion of reading ; Cassian's Conferences ; Reading in the monastery
Chapter IV : Reading into writing. Chapters on reading ; Liturgy and private prayer ; Carolingian Libelli precum
Chapter V : The extension of meditation. John of Fécamp's Confessio theologica ; Saint Anselm of Canterbury's Orationes sive meditationes
Chapter VI : Reading the Song of songs. Origen's Commentary on the Song of songs ; Origen's Homilies on the Song of songs ; Gregory's Exposition on the Song of songs ; Bernard of Clairvaux's Sermons on the Song of songs ; Bernard's reading project ; Allegorical analysis ; The voice of the bride
Chapter VII : The twelfth-century integration. Meditatio and Meditationes ; Hugh of Saint-Victor ; Guigo II
Chapter VIII : The book of experience.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 234-242) and index.

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Trappist, Ky, Collegeville, Minn
Series
Cistercian studies series -- no. 238, Cistercian studies series -- no. 238.

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248.309/02
Library of Congress
BR117 .R63 2011, BS617.8 .R63 2011, BR117.R63 2011

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xxi, 247 p.
Number of pages
247

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OL25202486M
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0879072385, 0879072040
ISBN 13
9780879072384, 9780879072049
LCCN
2011032455
OCLC/WorldCat
747018926

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