Emotional monasticism (eBook)

Affective piety in the eleventh-century monastery of John of Fécamp

Lauren Mancia (Autor)

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2019
288 Seiten
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-4022-7 (ISBN)

Infos

Drawing on the devotional culture of John of Fécamp’s Norman monastery, Emotional monasticism exposes the monastic roots of medieval affective piety, casts a new light on the devotional life of monks in Europe before the twelfth century and redefines how medievalists should teach the history of Christian devotion.

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Medievalists have long taught that highly emotional Christian devotion, often called 'affective piety', appeared in Europe after the twelfth century and was primarily practiced by communities of mendicants, lay people and women. Emotional monasticism challenges this view. The first study of affective piety in an eleventh-century monastic context, it traces the early history of affective devotion through the life and works of the earliest known writer of emotional prayers, John of Fcamp, abbot of the Norman monastery of Fcamp from 1028-78. Exposing the early medieval monastic roots of later medieval affective piety, the book casts a new light on the devotional life of monks in Europe before the twelfth century and redefines how medievalists should teach the history of Christianity. -- .

Autor

Lauren Mancia is Assistant Professor of History at Brooklyn College, City University of New York

Inhalt

Introduction
1 Reforming the reader's interior: defining emotional reform in John of Fécamp's Confessio theologica
2 Dicta mea sunt dicta patrum? Tradition and innovation in John’s writing
3 Reforming the monastic community: the uses of John's devotional method within the walls of Fécamp
4 Reforming monks in the temporal world:John's devotional principles cultivated in the Anglo-Norman landscape
5 John's medieval legacy: the monastic roots of affective piety
Conclusion
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.8.2019
• Reihe/Serie: Artes Liberales
• Zusatzinfo: 9 black & white illustrations, 2 maps
• Verlagsort: Manchester
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Mittelalter
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
• Schlagworte: Abbey of Fécamp • Affective piety • Benedictines • Confessio theologica • History of Emotion • John of Fécamp, abbot • Medieval Christianity • Medieval devotion • Monasticism • Normandy
• ISBN-10: 1-5261-4022-5 / 1526140225
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5261-4022-7 / 9781526140227