| Description |
475 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm. |
| Series |
Disciplina Monastica,
1782-1746 ;
8
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Disciplina monastica ; 8.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"'Walking in Christ's footsteps' was a devotional ideal in the late Middle Ages. However, few nuns and religious women had the freedom or the funding to take the journey in the flesh. Instead they invented and adjusted devotional exercises to visit the sites virtually. These exercises, largely based on real pilgrims' accounts, made use of images and objects that helped the beholder to imagine walking alongside Christ during his torturous march to Calvary. Some provided scripts whereby votaries could animate paintings and sculptures. Others required the nun to imagine her convent as a miniature model of Jerusalem. This volume is grounded in more than a dozen texts from manuscripts written by medieval nuns and religious women, which appear here transcribed and translated for the first time, and a multiplicity of (occasionally three-dimensional) images. They attest to the ubiquity and variety of virtual pilgrimages among religious women and help to reveal the functions of certain late medieval devotional images."--Publisher's description. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- 1. Physical and religious geography -- 2. Virtual pilgrimage among the orders -- 3. Motives for virtual travel -- I. Souvenirs recontextualized -- 1. Travelogues owned by religious women -- 2. The recontextualization of relics -- II. Interiority : stationary pilgrimage devotions -- 1. Devotionalists, virtual pilgrimage, and indulgences for Rome -- 2. The virtual pilgrimage of Maaseik -- 3. Textual descriptions of Jerusalem panoramas -- 4. Memory houses of the Passion -- III. Exteriority : somatic pilgrimage devotions -- 1. The Portiuncula -- 2. Birgittine virtual pilgrimage compilation -- 3. Praying in the Garden of Gethsemane -- 4. Visiting the Holy Sepulcher -- IV. A wider view -- 1. Across Europe -- 2. Lay audiences -- 3. A wider distribution through printing -- 4. Metaphoric vs. literalist virtual pilgrimage -- 5. Virtual travel in mind and body -- Appendices -- I. Brussels, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, MS 3402-03 -- II. Darmstadt, Hessische Landes- und Hochschulbibliothek, MS 982 -- III. The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, MS 73 F 23 -- IV. Comparison of two of the texts of Den aflaet der heilige steden van Jherusalem -- V. Rotterdam Gemeentebibliotheek, MS 96 E 12 -- VI. London, British Library, Add. MS 31001 (Birgittine Virtual Pilgrimage Compilation) -- VII. Brussels, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, MS II 3688 -- VIII. The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, post-incunable 231 G 22 -- IX. Ghent, Universiteitsbibliotheek, MS 1734 -- X. The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, MS 133 F 1 (The Windesheim Virtual) -- XI. The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, MS 132 G 38. |
| Language |
In English; in part in parallel columns with the original Dutch. |
| Subject |
Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages -- Europe -- History -- To 1500.
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Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages. |
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Europe. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
To 1500 |
| Subject |
Nuns. |
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Monastic and religious life of women -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.
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Monasticism and religious orders for women -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.
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Nuns -- Europe -- History -- To 1500.
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Christian women -- Religious life. |
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Christian women -- Religious life -- Europe -- History -- To 1500.
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Jerusalem -- In Christianity.
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Jerusalem in Christianity. |
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Monastic and religious life of women -- Middle Ages. |
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Monasticism and religious orders for women -- Middle Ages. |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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| ISBN |
2503541038 (paperback) |
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9782503541037 (paperback) |
| Standard No. |
9782503541037 |
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