Virtual pilgrimages in the convent : imagining Jerusalem in the late Middle Ages
"'Walking in Christ's footsteps' was a devotional ideal in the late Middle Ages. However, few nuns and religious women had the freedom or the funding to take the journey in the flesh. Instead they invented and adjusted devotional exercises to visit the sites virtually. These exer...
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| Document Type: | Book |
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| Language: | English Dutch |
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Turnhout
: Brepols
, 2011
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| Series: | Disciplina monastica
8 |
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| Online Access: | Inhaltsverzeichnis Rezension Rezension |
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[Rezension von: Kathryn M. Rudy, Virtual pilgrimages in the convent. Imagining Jerusalem in the late Middle Ages] |
| Author Notes: | Kathryn M. Rudy |
| Summary: | "'Walking in Christ's footsteps' was a devotional ideal in the late Middle Ages. However, few nuns and religious women had the freedom or the funding to take the journey in the flesh. Instead they invented and adjusted devotional exercises to visit the sites virtually. These exercises, largely based on real pilgrims' accounts, made use of images and objects that helped the beholder to imagine walking alongside Christ during his torturous march to Calvary. Some provided scripts whereby votaries could animate paintings and sculptures. Others required the nun to imagine her convent as a miniature model of Jerusalem. This volume is grounded in more than a dozen texts from manuscripts written by medieval nuns and religious women, which appear here transcribed and translated for the first time, and a multiplicity of (occasionally three-dimensional) images. They attest to the ubiquity and variety of virtual pilgrimages among religious women and help to reveal the functions of certain late medieval devotional images."--Publisher's description |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 449 - 468) and index |
| Physical Description: | 475 S. Ill. 27 cm |
| ISBN: | 2503541038 9782503541037 |
