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The late medieval and early modern period is a particularly interesting chapter in the development of meditation and self-reflection. Meditation may best be described as a self-imposed disciplinary regime, consisting of mental and physical exercises that allowed the practitioner to engender and evaluate his self-image, and thence to emend and refashion it. The volume aims at examining the forms and functions, ways and means of meditation from c. 1300 to c. 1600. It tries to analyze the internal exercises that mobilized the sensitive faculties of motion, emotion, and sense (both external and internal) and the intellective faculties of reason, memory, and will, with a view to reforming the soul, and the techniques of visualization that were frequently utilized to engage the soul’s mediating function as vinculum mundi , its pivotal position in the great chain of being between heaven and earth, temporal and spiritual experience. Contributors include Barbara Baert, Wietse de Boer, Feike Dietz, Jan Frans van Dijkhuizen, Karl Enenkel, Jan de Jong, Walter Melion, Wolfgang Neuber, Hilmar Pabel, Jan Papy, Paul Smith, Diana Stanciu, Nikolaus Staubach, Jacob Vance, and Geert Warnar.

Art --- Christian spirituality --- Literature --- anno 1500-1799 --- anno 1400-1499 --- anno 1300-1399 --- Meditation --- Christianity --- History --- Mental prayer --- Prayer, Mental --- Prayer --- Spiritual life --- Contemplation

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Work --- Leisure --- Contemplation --- Travail --- Loisir --- Congresses. --- Congrès --- Congrès --- -Work --- -Contemplation --- -Mental prayer --- Prayer, Mental --- Christian spirituality --- Mental prayer --- Contemplative orders --- Meditation --- Mysticism --- Prayer --- Congresses --- HISTOIRE INTELLECTUELLE --- SPIRITUALITE --- VIE ACTIVE --- ORDRES CONTEMPLATIFS --- CONTEMPLATION --- HISTOIRE --- Histoire intellectuelle --- Spiritualite --- Vie active --- Ordres contemplatifs --- Histoire

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This first book-length study of Marguerite Porete's important mystical text, The Mirror of Simple Souls, examines Porete's esoteric and optimistic doctrine of annihilation—the complete transformative union of the soul into God—in its philosophical and historical contexts. Porete was burned at the stake as a relapsed heretic in 1310. Her theological treatise survived the flames, but it circulated anonymously or under male pseudonyms until 1946, and her message endures as testament to a distinctive form of medieval spirituality.Robinson begins by focusing on traditional speculations regarding the origin, nature, limitations, and destiny of humankind. She then examines Porete's work in its more immediate historical and literary contexts, focusing on the ways in which Porete conceptualizes and expresses her radical doctrine of annihilation through contemporary metaphors of lineage and nobility.

Contemplation --- Mysticism --- Women mystics --- Mystics --- Dark night of the soul --- Mystical theology --- Theology, Mystical --- Spiritual life --- Negative theology --- Mental prayer --- Prayer, Mental --- Contemplative orders --- Meditation --- Prayer --- History of doctrines --- History --- Porete, Marguerite, --- Margaret Porette --- History.

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Christian spirituality --- Spiritual life --- Contemplation --- Asceticism --- Christianity --- Catholic Church --- 271.1-7 --- -Contemplation --- -Life, Spiritual --- Religious life --- Spirituality --- Mental prayer --- Prayer, Mental --- Contemplative orders --- Meditation --- Mysticism --- Prayer --- Ascetical theology --- Contempt of the world --- Theology, Ascetical --- Christian life --- Ethics --- Benedictijnen: spiritualiteit; officie; koordienst; liturgie --- -Benedictijnen: spiritualiteit; officie; koordienst; liturgie --- 271.1-7 Benedictijnen: spiritualiteit; officie; koordienst; liturgie --- -Mental prayer --- Life, Spiritual --- Spiritual life - Christianity --- Asceticism - Catholic Church

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Richard of St.Victor (d.1173) developed original ideas about the faculty of imagination in a twelfth-century Parisian context. Related to the historical study of philosophical psychology, Richard of St. Victor’s Theory of Imagination acknowledges that the faculty of imagination, being a necessary precondition for human reasoning and a link between soul and body, plays an important role in Richard’s understanding of the human soul. Richard also deals with the interpretation of biblical language, metaphors, rhetoric, and the possibility of creative imagination. Considering all these aspects of the imagination in Richard’s texts improves our understanding of his theological epistemology and sheds new light on the theory of the imagination in the history of medieval philosophy in general.

Christian spirituality --- Richard of St-Victor --- Contemplation --- Mysticism --- Richard, --- Contemplation. --- Mysticism. --- Dark night of the soul --- Mystical theology --- Theology, Mystical --- Spiritual life --- Negative theology --- Mental prayer --- Prayer, Mental --- Contemplative orders --- Meditation --- Prayer --- Richard, - of St. Victor, - -1173. - Benjamin major --- Richard, - of St. Victor, - -1173. - Benjamin minor