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Holy matter : changing perceptions of the material world in late medieval Christianity / Sara Ritchey.
LIBRA BX1795.N36 R58 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ritchey, Sara Margaret, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nature--Religious aspects--Catholic Church--History of doctrines--Middle Ages, 600-1500.
- Nature.
- Spiritual life--Christianity--History of doctrines--Middle Ages, 600-1500.
- Spiritual life.
- Spiritual life--Christianity--History of doctrines.
- Spiritual life--Christianity--History of doctrines--Middle Ages.
- Natural theology--History of doctrines--Middle Ages, 600-1500.
- Natural theology.
- Theology, Doctrinal--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500.
- Theology, Doctrinal.
- History.
- Theology, Doctrinal--Middle Ages.
- Natural theology--History of doctrines.
- Nature--Religious aspects--Catholic Church.
- Physical Description:
- x, 235 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2014.
- Summary:
- "A magnificent proliferation of new Christ-centered devotional practices--including affective meditation, imitative suffering, crusade, Eucharistic cults and miracles, passion drama, and liturgical performance--reveals profound changes in the Western Christian temperament of the twelfth century and beyond. This change has often been attributed by scholars to an increasing emphasis on God's embodiment in the incarnation and crucifixion of Christ. In Holy Matter, Sara Ritchey offers a fresh narrative explaining theological and devotional change by journeying beyond the human body to ask how religious men and women understood the effects of God's incarnation on the natural, material world. She finds a remarkable willingness on the part of medieval Christians to embrace the material world--its trees, flowers, vines, its worms and wolves--as a locus for divine encounter"-- Publisher's Web site.
- Contents:
- The mirror of holy virginity
- Virginitas and viriditas
- Clare of Assisi and the ligna of crucifixion
- The Franciscan bough
- An estranged wilderness.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780801452536
- 0801452538
- OCLC:
- 863196067
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