02599nam a22003614a 4500 ebr10265913 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 070409s2007 iluaf sb 001 0 eng 2007014103 GBA768324 bnb 013828550 Uk 9780226071329 (cloth : alk. paper) 0226071324 (cloth : alk. paper) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)646783201 BV4501.3 .B7423 2007eb 282/.4209024 22 Brantley, Jessica. Reading in the wilderness [electronic resource] : private devotion and public performance in late medieval England / 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. Spiritual life Christianity History of doctrines Middle Ages, 600-1500. Devotion. England Religion. Electronic books. local ebrary, Inc. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10265913 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 10489 10489