Reading in the wilderness : private devotion and public performance in late medieval England / / Jessica Brantley.
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| Year of Publication: | 2007 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | xviii, 463 p., 8 p. of plates :; ill. (some col.). |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.