Meditatio : refashioning the self : theory and practice in late medieval and early modern intellectual culture / / edited by Karl Enenkel and Walter Melion.

• Superior document: Intersections ; v. 17
• TeilnehmendeR: Enenkel, K. A. E.; Melion, Walter S.
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Intersections (Boston, Mass.) ; v. 17.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (460 p.)
• Notes: Rev. proceedings of a colloquium held in Apr. 2009 at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies.

The late medieval and early modern period is a particularly interesting chapter in the development of meditation and self-reflection. Meditation may best be described as a self-imposed disciplinary regime, consisting of mental and physical exercises that allowed the practitioner to engender and eval...

Table of Contents

• pt. 1. Meditatio and refashioning the self in literature, 1300-1600
• pt. 2. Religious meditation in the late medieval and early modern theology
• pt. 3. Exercitia spiriutalia : meditation and the Jesuits
• pt. 4. Religious meditation in the visual arts, 13th-17th century.