Meditatio – Refashioning the Self
Theory and Practice in Late Medieval and Early Modern Intellectual Culture
Biographical note
Karl A.E. Enenkel, Ph.D. (Leiden, 1990) is Professor of Medieval and Neo-Latin Literature at the University of Münster, Germany, and member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). He has published on international Humanism, the reception of Classical Antiquity, the history of ideas, literary genres and emblem studies.
Walter S. Melion, Ph.D. (1988) in Art History, University of California, Berkeley, is Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Art History at Emory University in Atlanta. He has published extensively on Dutch and Flemish art and art theory of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. His books include Shaping the Netherlandish Canon: Karel van Mander's 'Schilder-Boeck' (University of Chicago, 1991) and The Meditative Art: Studies in the Northern Devotional Print (Saint Joseph's University, 2009).
Walter S. Melion, Ph.D. (1988) in Art History, University of California, Berkeley, is Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Art History at Emory University in Atlanta. He has published extensively on Dutch and Flemish art and art theory of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. His books include Shaping the Netherlandish Canon: Karel van Mander's 'Schilder-Boeck' (University of Chicago, 1991) and The Meditative Art: Studies in the Northern Devotional Print (Saint Joseph's University, 2009).
Readership
Interdisciplinary academic readership, interested in the early modern period, especially in the history of religion, theology, cultural history, literary criticism, and art history.
Table of contents
Introduction
I. MEDITATIO AND REFASHIONING THE SELF IN LITERATURE, 1300-1600
Meditative Frames as Reader’s Guidance in Neo-Latin Texts
KARL ENENKEL
Petrarch’s “Inner Eye” in the Familiarium libri XXIV
JAN PAPY
The Discovery of the Dialogue in Medieval Dutch Literature. A Discourse for Meditation and Disputation
GEERT WARNAR
From Meditation to Reverie: Montaigne and Rousseau
PAUL SMITH
Exscribo ergo sum. Self-Reflexion and Meditiation in Early Modern German Family Books
WOLFGANG NEUBER
II. RELIGIOUS MEDITATION IN LATE MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN THEOLOGY
Accomplishing one’s Essence: the Role of Meditation in the Theology of Gabriel Biel
DIANA STANCIU
Twelfth and Sixteenth Century Discourses on Meditation and Contemplation. Lefevre d’Etaples’ Commentaries on Richard of Saint Victor’s De Trinitate
JACOB VANCE
Die Meditation im spirituellen Reformprogramm der Devotio Moderna
NIKOLAUS STAUBACH
Love Tricks and Flea-Bitings: Meditation, Imagination and the Pain of Christ in Joseph Hall and Richard Crawshaw
JAN FRANS VAN DIJKHUIZEN
III. EXERCITIA SPIRITUALIA: MEDITATION AND THE JESUITS
Invisible Contemplation: a Paradox in the Spiritual Exercises
WIETSE DE BOER
Meditation in the Service of Catholic Orthodoxy: Peter Canisius’ Notae Evangelicae
HILMAR PABEL
Dark Images, Clear Words. Pieter Paets’s Illustrated Devotional Literature from the Missio Hollandica
FEIKE DIETZ
IV. RELIGIOUS MEDITATION IN THE VISUAL ARTS, 13TH – 17TH CENTURY
He Must Increase, but I Must Decrease. On the Spiritual and Pictorial Intertwining between the Johannesschüssel and the Vera Icon (1200-1500)
BARBARA BAERT
Cultivating Piety. Religious Art and Artists After the Council of Trent
JAN L. DE JONG
Exegetical Duality as a Meditative Crux in Maarten van Heemskerck’s Balaam and the Angel in a Panoramic Landscape of 1554
WALTER S. MELION
I. MEDITATIO AND REFASHIONING THE SELF IN LITERATURE, 1300-1600
Meditative Frames as Reader’s Guidance in Neo-Latin Texts
KARL ENENKEL
Petrarch’s “Inner Eye” in the Familiarium libri XXIV
JAN PAPY
The Discovery of the Dialogue in Medieval Dutch Literature. A Discourse for Meditation and Disputation
GEERT WARNAR
From Meditation to Reverie: Montaigne and Rousseau
PAUL SMITH
Exscribo ergo sum. Self-Reflexion and Meditiation in Early Modern German Family Books
WOLFGANG NEUBER
II. RELIGIOUS MEDITATION IN LATE MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN THEOLOGY
Accomplishing one’s Essence: the Role of Meditation in the Theology of Gabriel Biel
DIANA STANCIU
Twelfth and Sixteenth Century Discourses on Meditation and Contemplation. Lefevre d’Etaples’ Commentaries on Richard of Saint Victor’s De Trinitate
JACOB VANCE
Die Meditation im spirituellen Reformprogramm der Devotio Moderna
NIKOLAUS STAUBACH
Love Tricks and Flea-Bitings: Meditation, Imagination and the Pain of Christ in Joseph Hall and Richard Crawshaw
JAN FRANS VAN DIJKHUIZEN
III. EXERCITIA SPIRITUALIA: MEDITATION AND THE JESUITS
Invisible Contemplation: a Paradox in the Spiritual Exercises
WIETSE DE BOER
Meditation in the Service of Catholic Orthodoxy: Peter Canisius’ Notae Evangelicae
HILMAR PABEL
Dark Images, Clear Words. Pieter Paets’s Illustrated Devotional Literature from the Missio Hollandica
FEIKE DIETZ
IV. RELIGIOUS MEDITATION IN THE VISUAL ARTS, 13TH – 17TH CENTURY
He Must Increase, but I Must Decrease. On the Spiritual and Pictorial Intertwining between the Johannesschüssel and the Vera Icon (1200-1500)
BARBARA BAERT
Cultivating Piety. Religious Art and Artists After the Council of Trent
JAN L. DE JONG
Exegetical Duality as a Meditative Crux in Maarten van Heemskerck’s Balaam and the Angel in a Panoramic Landscape of 1554
WALTER S. MELION
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