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The Meditationes vitae Christi reconsidered : new perspectives on text and image / edited by Holly Flora and Peter Tóth.
Van Pelt Library BT306.38 .M4335 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Conference Name:
- International Medieval Congress (2018 : Leeds, England). Meditationes Vitae Christi and Visual Constructions of Memory.
- Series:
- Trecento forum ; v. 3.
- Trecento forum ; Vol. III
- Language:
- English
- French
- Italian
- Latin
- Provençal (to 1500)
- Subjects (All):
- Meditationes vitae Christi--Congresses.
- Meditationes vitae Christi.
- Meditationes vitae Christi--Illustrations--Congresses.
- Jesus Christ--Iconography--Congresses.
- Jesus Christ.
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval--Congresses.
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval.
- Illustration of books.
- Pictures.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- 252 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color) ; 29 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, [2021]
- Language Note:
- English text with passages in Latin, Provençal, French, and Italian, with parallel English translations from the Provençal, French, and Italian.
- Summary:
- "Drawing on diverse literary traditions, the author of the fourteenth-century Meditationes vitae Christi transformed the Gospel accounts into an emotionally charged and vivid narrative that became one of the most popular texts of the late Middle Ages. Over the past few years, new theories about the authorship, date, and original language of the text have emerged, raising new questions about this text and its impact on late medieval art and spirituality. The essays in this interdisciplinary volume examine multiple aspects of the Meditationes history, from its possible authorship to its manuscript traditions to its reflections in art."-- Back cover.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Fra Jacopo in the Archives: San Gimignano as a Context for the Meditations on the Life of Christ / Donal Cooper
- The Earliest Reference to the Meditationes Vitae Christi: New Evidence for its Date, Authorship, and Language / Peter Toth
- Contemplation in the French and Occitan Versions of the Meditationes Vitae Christi / Maureen Boulton
- The Italian Text of the Paris Manuscript of the Meditationes: Historiographic Remarks and Further Perspectives / David Falvay
- Reading the Meditationes Vitae Christi on the Mount of Light, Perugia / Renana Bartal
- Feast, Fast, and the Feminine: Women at the Table in the Illustrated Meditationes / Holly Flora
- Meditations for a Married Man: The Snite MVC and the Elite Urban Male Reader / Dianne Phillips
- A Newly Discovered Illuminated Manuscript of the Meditationes vitae Christi Produced in Fifteenth-Century Veneto (Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica, MS Reg. Lat. 478) / Lisandra S. Costiner
- The Writer as Viewer: Recollecting Art in the Text of the Meditationes Vitae Christi / Joanna Cannon
- Mixed Media: Questioning Format in Late Medieval Pictorial Vita Christi Cycles / Lynn Ransom.
- Notes:
- "In 2018 ... a double session devoted to the Meditationes at the International Medieval Congress in Leeds, United Kingdom. The articles presented here ... are refined versions of the papers presented at the Leeds conference, augmented with a number of invited contributions."--Pages 7-8.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9782503595054
- 2503595057
- OCLC:
- 1274119401
- Publisher Number:
- 99990694785
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