Solitudo : : spaces, places, and times of solitude in late medieval and early modern cultures / / edited by Karl A. E. Enenkel, Christine Gottler.

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Superior document:Intersections : Interdisciplinary Studies in Early Modern Culture ; Volume 56
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2018]
2018
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Intersections (Boston, Mass.) ; Volume 56.
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Physical Description:1 online resource (642 pages).
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Table of Contents:
  • Solitude in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Foundations, shifts, and transformations
  • Petrarch's constructions of the sacred solitary place in De Vita Solitaria and other writings / Karl A.E. Enenkel
  • Monastic solitude as spiritual remedy and firewall against reformation: Cornelius Musius's reappraisal of the Vita Solitaria (1566) / Karl A.E. Enenkel
  • Concepts of solitude in Jacobus de Voragine's legenda aurea / Dominic E. Delarue
  • 'Sacred woods': Performing solitude at the Court of Duke Wilhelm V of Bavaria / Christine Gottler
  • Solitude in the pictorial and emblematic imagination
  • Anachoretic ideals in urban settings: Meditational practices and mural painting in Trecento Italy / Raphaele Preisinger
  • Constructing the imaginary desert of the soul in emblematic literature / Agnes Guiderdoni
  • Emblemata solitariae passionis: Jan David, S.J., on the solitary passion of Christ / Walter S. Melion
  • Landscapes of solitude
  • Giovanni Bellini's San Francesco nel deserto / Oskar Batschmann
  • Landscapes and visual exegesis: Solitude in the Chapel of Fra Mariano Fetti in San Silvestro al Quirinale / Steffen Zierholz
  • Alone at the summit: Solitude and the ascetic imagination at the Sacro Monte of Varallo / Carla Benzan
  • Dead men talking: The studiolo of Urbino. A Duke in mourning and the petrarchan tradition / Christiane J. Hessler
  • Sociable solitude: The early modern hermitage as proto-museum / Arnold A. Witte
  • A solitude of permeable boundaries: The Abbey of la Trappe between isolation and engagement / Mette Birkedal Bruun
  • Mirrors and memories: The chinese mirror cabinet at the hermitage near Bayreuth / Marie Theres Stauffer
  • Solitude in antiquarian and natural history
  • The prophetess in the woods: The early modern debate about Veleda, Aurinia, and Vola / Bernd Roling
  • Passer solitarius: Tribulations of a lonely bird in poetry and natural history, from petrarch to buffon / Paul J. Smith.