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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Enenkel, K. A. E.

Series:

Intersections 56.

Intersections : interdisciplinary studies in early modern culture, 1568-1181 ; v. 56

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Solitude--History.

Solitude.

Solitude in art.

Solitude in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (642 pages).

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Brill, 2018.

Summary:

This book explores the spatial, material, and affective dimensions of solitude in the late medieval and early modern periods, a hitherto largely neglected topic. Its focus is on the dynamic qualities of "space" and "place", which are here understood as being shaped, structured, and imbued with meaning through both social and discursive solitary practices such as reading, writing, studying, meditating, and praying. Individual chapters investigate the imageries and imaginaries of outdoor and indoor spaces and places associated with solitude and its practices and examine the ways in which the space of solitude was conceived of, imagined, and represented in the arts and in literature, from about 1300 to about 1800. Contributors include Oskar Bätschmann, Carla Benzan, Mette Birkedal Bruun, Dominic E. Delarue, Karl A.E. Enenkel, Christine Göttler, Agnès Guiderdoni, Christiane J. Hessler, Walter S. Melion, Raphaèle Preisinger, Bernd Roling, Paul Smith, Marie Theres Stauffer, Arnold A. Witte, and Steffen Zierholz.

Contents:

Front Matter

Copyright page

Acknowledgements

Notes on the Editors

Notes on the Contributors

List of Illustrations

Realms of Solitude in Late Medieval and Early Modern European Cultures: An Introduction / Christine Göttler

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 Göttler

Solitude in the Pictorial and Emblematic Imagination

Anachoretic Ideals in Urban Settings: Meditational Practices and Mural Painting in Trecento Italy / Raphaèle Preisinger

Constructing the Imaginary Desert of the Soul in Emblematic Literature / Agnès 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 Bätschmann

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

Architectures of Solitude

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

Back Matter

Index Nominum.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

90-04-36743-8

OCLC:

1043913362

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004367432 DOI