Meditationes piisimae de cognitione humanae conditionis. English https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2023025838
Notes:
Translation of: Meditationes piisimae de cognitione humanae conditionis. Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents:
Part 1. Introduction. 1. Bernard and Pseudo-Bernard -- 2. The Meditationes piisimae -- 3. The teaching of the Meditationes : theory -- 4. The teaching of the Meditationes : practice -- 5. The English translations. -- Part 2. The translation: Most devout meditations on the knowledge of the human condition. 1. On human dignity -- 2. On human misery, the horror of death, and the severity of the Supreme Judge -- 3. Of the dignity of the soul and the baseness of the body -- 4. Of the reward of the heavenly homeland -- 5. On the daily examination of oneself -- 6. On the need to be attentive at the time of prayer -- 7. On guarding the heart and zeal in prayer -- 8. On the hatred of carelessness or negligence in prayer -- 9. On the unstable nature of the human heart -- 10. On the dislike of being corrected, and of being accused of one's failures and faults -- 11. On conscience, which accompanies us everywhere and continually goads us -- 12. Of the three enemies of humankind : the flesh, the world, and the devil -- 13. On the attacks of these three aforesaid enemies -- 14. On the desire for our heavenly homeland and on its supreme happiness -- 15. On the nature and feelings of the old self, and its mortification and transformation through Christ.
Summary:
"This volume, the first complete translation in more than three-hundred years, presents one of the most important texts in the history of medieval Latin spirituality. Written between 1170 and 1190 by an unidentified Cistercian monk-priest, Meditationes piisimae, "Very Devout Meditations," became one of the most popular and widely distributed pieces of spiritual literature in the whole of the Middle Ages. The work survives in at least 670 manuscripts with the complete English translation of the treatise published in 1701"-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
Cistercian studies series ; no. two hundred ninety-eight
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