Reading in the wilderness
Brantley, Jessica.
Reading in the wilderness private devotion and public performance in late medieval England / [electronic resource] : Jessica Brantley. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007. - xviii, 463 p., 8 p. of plates : ill. (some col.).
Includes bibliographical references (p. [395]-448) and indexes.
Introduction: The performance of reading -- "Silence visible" : Carthusian devotional reading and meditative practice -- Backgrounds : the Carthusian Order -- Carthusians and books -- Carthusians and art -- The shapes of eremitic reading in the desert of religion : the desert of religion as imagetext -- "ALS wildernes is wroght �is boke" : formats of monastic books -- Reading spiritual community in the wilderness -- Lyric imaginings and painted prayers -- The eremitic lyric and Richard Rolle -- Imagining the Carthusian reader -- Liturgical pageantry in private spaces -- Reading the liturgy : two models -- Performing the holy name -- Performing the canonical hours -- Performing the seven sacraments -- Envisioning dialogue in performance -- "In maner of a dyaloge it wente" -- Allegorical dialogues : the pylgremage of the soul -- Mystical dialogues : the treatise of the seven points -- Dramatizing the cell : theatrical performances in monastic reading -- Dramatic texts, lyric voices, and private readers -- Theatrical reading in additional 37049 -- Monastic closet drama -- Conclusion: Reading performances.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
GBA768324 bnb
Uk
Spiritual life--Christianity--History of doctrines--Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Devotion.
England--Religion.
Electronic books.
BV4501.3 / .B7423 2007eb
282/.4209024
Reading in the wilderness private devotion and public performance in late medieval England / [electronic resource] : Jessica Brantley. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007. - xviii, 463 p., 8 p. of plates : ill. (some col.).
Includes bibliographical references (p. [395]-448) and indexes.
Introduction: The performance of reading -- "Silence visible" : Carthusian devotional reading and meditative practice -- Backgrounds : the Carthusian Order -- Carthusians and books -- Carthusians and art -- The shapes of eremitic reading in the desert of religion : the desert of religion as imagetext -- "ALS wildernes is wroght �is boke" : formats of monastic books -- Reading spiritual community in the wilderness -- Lyric imaginings and painted prayers -- The eremitic lyric and Richard Rolle -- Imagining the Carthusian reader -- Liturgical pageantry in private spaces -- Reading the liturgy : two models -- Performing the holy name -- Performing the canonical hours -- Performing the seven sacraments -- Envisioning dialogue in performance -- "In maner of a dyaloge it wente" -- Allegorical dialogues : the pylgremage of the soul -- Mystical dialogues : the treatise of the seven points -- Dramatizing the cell : theatrical performances in monastic reading -- Dramatic texts, lyric voices, and private readers -- Theatrical reading in additional 37049 -- Monastic closet drama -- Conclusion: Reading performances.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
GBA768324 bnb
Uk
Spiritual life--Christianity--History of doctrines--Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Devotion.
England--Religion.
Electronic books.
BV4501.3 / .B7423 2007eb
282/.4209024