Virtual pilgrimages in the convent: imagining Jerusalem in the late Middle Ages
"'Walking in Christ's footsteps' was a devotional ideal in the late Middle Ages. However, few nuns and religious women had the freedom or the funding to take the journey in the flesh. Instead they invented and adjusted devotional exercises to visit the sites virtually. These exer...
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| Tipo de documento: | Print Livro |
| Idioma: | Inglês Holandês |
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| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
| Publicado em: |
Turnhout
Brepols
2011
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Disciplina monastica (8)
Ano: 2011 |
| Coletânea / Revista: | Disciplina monastica
8 |
| (Cadeias de) Palavra- chave padrão: | B
Jerusalém (Motivo)
/ Peregrinação (Motivo)
/ Devoção
/ Congregação
/ História 1200-1500
B Neerlandês médio / Literatura cristã / Jerusalém (Motivo) / Peregrinação (Motivo) |
| Outras palavras-chave: | B
Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages (Europe)
History To 1500
B Monastic And Religious Life Of Women History Middle Ages, 600-1500 B Nuns (Europe) History To 1500 B Jerusalém In Christianity B Fonte B Monasticism and religious orders for women History Middle Ages, 600-1500 B Christian women Religious life (Europe) History To 1500 |
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Inhaltsverzeichnis (Verlag) Resenha Rezension (Verlag) |
| Resumo: | "'Walking in Christ's footsteps' was a devotional ideal in the late Middle Ages. However, few nuns and religious women had the freedom or the funding to take the journey in the flesh. Instead they invented and adjusted devotional exercises to visit the sites virtually. These exercises, largely based on real pilgrims' accounts, made use of images and objects that helped the beholder to imagine walking alongside Christ during his torturous march to Calvary. Some provided scripts whereby votaries could animate paintings and sculptures. Others required the nun to imagine her convent as a miniature model of Jerusalem. This volume is grounded in more than a dozen texts from manuscripts written by medieval nuns and religious women, which appear here transcribed and translated for the first time, and a multiplicity of (occasionally three-dimensional) images. They attest to the ubiquity and variety of virtual pilgrimages among religious women and help to reveal the functions of certain late medieval devotional images."--Publisher's description |
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| Descrição do item: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 449 - 468) and index |
| ISBN: | 2503541038 |