'The Devout Belief of the Imagination'

'The Devout Belief of the Imagination' The Paris 'Meditationes Vitae Christi' and Female Franciscan Spirituality in Trecento Italy

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Publisher's Synopsis

This volume examines the late medieval devotional text Meditationes Vitae Christi through an analysis of its most important manuscript, known by its present location and catalogue number as Paris Bibliotheque Nationale Ms. ital. 115. As Flora argues, Ms. ital. 115, the oldest and most extensively illustrated copy of the Meditationes, was originally made in or near Pisa circa 1350 and tailored very specifically for a group of Franciscan nuns. Flora proposes the manuscript's probable uses in practices of performative devotion and affective response, and the relationship between its imagery and other works of art made for religious women, shedding new light on the history of female monasticism in medieval Italy.

Book information

ISBN: 9782503528199
Publisher: Brepols Publishers
Imprint: Brepols Publishers
Pub date:
DEWEY: 270
Language: English
Number of pages: 305
Weight: 975g
Height: 264mm
Width: 211mm
Spine width: 23mm