Name: Lectio Divina : The Medieval Experience Of Reading
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Lectio Divina : The Medieval Experience Of Reading

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During the Middle Ages the act of reading was experienced intensively in the monastic exercise of lectio divina the prayerful scrutiny of passages of Scripture, savored in meditation, memorized, recited, and rediscovered in the reader s own religious life. The rich literary tradition that arose from this culture includes theoretical writings from the Conferences of John Cassian (fifth century) through the twelfth-century treatises of Hugh of St. Victor and the Carthusian Guigo II; it also includes compilations, literary meditations, and scriptural commentary, notably on the Song of Songs. This study brings medievalist research together with modern theoretical reflections on the act of reading in a consolidation of historical scholarship, spirituality, and literary criticism.

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SKU (ISBN): 9780879072384
ISBN10: 0879072385
Duncan Robertson
Binding: Trade Paper
Published: December 2011
Cistercian Studies
Publisher: Liturgical Press

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