Lauren Mancia (Assistant Professor of History)

Emotional monasticism

Affective piety in the eleventh-century monastery of John of Fécamp

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Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on the devotional culture of John of Fà  campà â â s Norman monastery, Emotional monasticism exposes the monastic roots of medieval affective piety, casts a new light on the devotional life of monks in Europe before the twelfth century and redefines how medievalists should teach the history of Christian devotion. -- .

Produktdetails

• Artes Liberales
• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 504g
• ISBN-13: 9781526140203
• ISBN-10: 1526140209
• Artikelnr.: 55394323

Autorenporträt

Lauren Mancia is Assistant Professor of History at Brooklyn College, City University of New York

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1 Reforming the reader's interior: defining emotional reform
in John of Fécamp's Confessio theologica 2 Dicta mea sunt dicta patrum?
Tradition and innovation in John's writing 3 Reforming the monastic
community: the uses of John's devotional method within the walls of Fécamp
4 Reforming monks in the temporal world:John's devotional principles
cultivated in the Anglo-Norman landscape 5 John's medieval legacy: the
monastic roots of affective piety Conclusion Index