Meditating death in medieval and early modern devotional writing : from Bonaventure to Luther hbk.

• Material Type: 図書
• ISBN: 9780198861980
• Title: Meditating death in medieval and early modern devotional writing : from Bonaventure to Luther
• Volume: hbk.
• Author/Editor: Mark Chinca
• Edition: First edition
• Author Heading: Chinca, Mark
• Publication, Distribution, etc.: Oxford University Press
• Publication Date: 2020; 〓2020
• Publication Date (W3CDTF): 2020
• Size: 24 cm
• Place of Publication (Country Code): uk
• Text Language Code: en
• Subject Heading: Death -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History; Devotional literature; Europe -- Church history -- 600-1500; Europe -- Church history -- 16th century; Death in literature -- Early works to 1800; Literature, Medieval; Mortality in literature -- Early works to 1800; European literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700; Future life -- Christianity -- Early works to 1800; Retribution -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- Early works to 1800; Future punishment -- Christianity -- Early works to 1800; Retribution -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. fast (OCoLC)fst01096381; Mortality in literature. fast (OCoLC)fst01026536; Future punishment -- Christianity. fast (OCoLC)fst01766692; Future life -- Christianity. fast (OCoLC)fst01751184; Death in literature. fast (OCoLC)fst00888697; Literature, Medieval. fast (OCoLC)fst01000151; 1500-1700 fast; Early works. fast (OCoLC)fst01411636
• LCC: PN56.D4
• Target Audience: 一般
• Note (General): Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-290) and index; Summary: "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 exer
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• LC Control Number: 2019955810; https://lccn.loc.gov/2019955810