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04191aam a2200517 i 4500 001 A2893306FFE911EBB6EAFDEE22ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210818010020 008 191129t20202020enka b 001 0 eng d 010 $a 2019955810 020 $a 9780198861980 020 $a 0198861982 035 $a (OCoLC)1130640669 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d BDX $d ERASA $d OCLCF $d YDXIT $d UKMGB $d GUA $d NJR $d YDX $d OCLCO $d LML $d IaU $d SILO 042 $a lccopycat 043 $a e------ 050 00 $a PN56.D4 $b C48 2020 082 04 $a 809/.933548 $2 23 082 04 $a 230 100 1 $a Chinca, Mark, $e author. 245 10 $a Meditating death in medieval and early modern devotional writing : $b from Bonaventure to Luther / $c Mark Chinca. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a Oxford, United Kingdom ; $b Oxford University Press, $c 2020. 300 $a xiv, 299 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 490 1 $a Oxford studies in medieval literature and culture 520 8 $a The monograph series Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture showcases the plurilingual and multicultural quality of medieval literature and actively seeks to promote research that not only focuses on the array of subjects medievalists now pursue - in literature, theology, and philosophy, in social, political, jurisprudential, and intellectual history, the history of art, and the history of science - but also that combines these subjects productively. It offers innovative studies on topics that may include, but are not limited to, manuscript and book history; languages and literatures of the global Middle Ages; race and the post-colonial; the digital humanities, media and performance; music; medicine; the history of affect and the emotions; the literature and practices of devotion; the theory and history of gender and sexuality, ecocriticism and the environment; theories of aesthetics; medievalism. Meditating about death and the afterlife was one of the most important techniques that Christian societies in medieval and early modern Europe had at their disposal for developing a sense of individual selfhood. Believers who regularly and systematically reflected on the inevitability of death and the certainty of eternal punishment in hell or reward in heaven would acquire an understanding of themselves as a unique persons defined by their moral actions; they would also learn to discipline themselves by feeling remorse for their sins, doing penance, and cultivating a permanent vigilance over their future thoughts and deeds. This book covers a crucial period in the formation and transformation of the technique of meditating on death: from the thirteenth century, when a practice that had mainly been the preserve of a monastic elite began to be more widely disseminated among all segments of Christian society, to the sixteenth, when the Protestant Reformation transformed the technique of spiritual exercise into a bible-based mindfulness. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-290) and index. 648 7 $a 1500-1700 $2 fast 650 0 $a Death in literature $x Early works to 1800. 650 0 $a Literature, Medieval. 650 0 $a Mortality in literature $x Early works to 1800. 650 0 $a European literature $y Early modern, 1500-1700. 650 0 $a Future life $x Early works to 1800. $x Early works to 1800. 650 0 $a Retribution $x Early works to 1800. $x Christianity $x Early works to 1800. 650 0 $a Future punishment $x Early works to 1800. $x Early works to 1800. 650 7 $a Retribution $x Christianity. $x Christianity. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01096381 650 7 $a Mortality in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01026536 650 7 $a Future punishment $x Christianity. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01766692 650 7 $a Future life $x Christianity. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01751184 650 7 $a Death in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00888697 650 7 $a Literature, Medieval. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01000151 655 7 $a Early works. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411636 830 0 $a Oxford studies in medieval literature and culture. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220317021349.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=A2893306FFE911EBB6EAFDEE22ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search