...David Marno This essay traces shifts in meditative practice from Saint Ignatius of Loyola's Spiritual Exercises to the experimental philosopher Robert Boyle's Occasional Reflections , showing how Boyle's text participates in the evolution of the concept of “attention” as it changes from a spiritual...

... in these terms. Simone Weil's famous assertion that every school exercise is like a sacrament challenges us to reconsider the limited vocabulary we employ to describe the nature of the mind's work in both “religious” and “secular” contexts. To this end, essays explore intersections between devotional practice...

... of the philosopher. The intellectual labors of the experimentalist could thus be understood as a form of spiritual exercises. © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 a Sentiments of Devotion and Experimental Philosophy...

...Amy Appleford Richard Whitford's A Work for Householders constructs a model of household governance organized around the contemplative life of the lay householder and his pastoral command over his familia. A Work for Householder 's companion text, A Daily Exercise of Death , centers on willed self...

... play well through disciplined habits of exercise. In Alasdair MacIntyre's extraordinary excavations of philosophy and intellectual history, the Reformation is by and large neglected as he traces a path from Aristotle to Hume and beyond. This special issue seeks to put the Reformation(s) back...

... as silk merchants and as agents purchasing goods on behalf of others. Buying clothing was also a strongly gendered pursuit, shaped by contemporary views of women's domestic roles. Despite the influence exercised by consumers, members of the clothing trade played a significant part in promoting change...

... originated with the founder of the Jesuit order, St. Ignatius Loyola, whose Spiritual Exercises became a favorite devo- tional text during the Counter-Reformation. This is the same type of acute 34  Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 39.1 / 2009 sensorial imagery, I shall argue, which...

... be stronge & swift” (293 – 94), suggest- ing that birth alone is insufficient and that proof of bodily might is required. Among this elite, our poet claims, only the best of body are admitted: “Of myghty men first is thelectioun, / To make, & hem to lerne, & exercise / An ooste of hem for his...

... This Latin work was published in 1548, the same year that Ignatius Loyola’s Spiritual Exercises first appeared. Peryn’s editor believes Van Ess, and hence Peryn, was indebted to the Ignatian method, and indeed Peryn’s translation has been called the first appearance in English of Ignatian...

... would be a superfluous exercise. But on the rare occasions one does encounter an actual quotation, it tends to be from a risibly cherry-­picked source: a survey of adolescents, or a dogmatic atheist like Daniel Dennett, whose hamfisted attacks on religion have alien- ated even his fellow atheists...

.... Denying the possibility of a counterinterpreta- tion implies a very powerful exercise of faith. We might respond by describ- ing psychoanalysis as a kind of theology, but it will be obvious that I think the distance between theological thinking and all other hermeneutic tradi- tions is much shorter...

... as part of the volume ofHis Maiesties poeti- call exercises, “in my verie young and tender yeares” as the then king of Scot- land would say.18 The ideological charge of Apollo’s “poynting” could not in principle be clearer: “Lepanto” as it comes to figure in the scheme of history is brought...

..., imitation of exemplary authors, and exercises in original composition. Although the eventual aim was eloquent speech, the training process also demanded listening, reading, and writing in equal measure. 8 Borrowed from Greek rhetorical theory, the earliest surviving example of the triad in Latin...

... it (reformulating Ernst Kantorowicz’s classic thesis concerning the king’s two bodies), “the natural body . . . because it is combined with the supernatural body, exercises the Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 32:2, Spring 2002. Copyright © by Duke University...

... perturbations of the soul, as so many diseases,” and she argues to the contrary that the passions “not only discharge the office of mentor and guide to such as are pressing toward the gate of wisdom, but they also assist in every exercise of virtue as spurs and goads.” 29 Augustine, James Wetzel argues, had...

... a broad Protestant culture that encompassed diverse impulses (including voluntaristic ones), Patrick Collinson challenged the “excessively vertical, or linear treatment” of English religious traditions. He cautioned against approaching the study of Reformation England as an exercise in denominational...

... to the Roman emphasis on washing over exercise. The Antwerp Glossary, by contrast, translates gymnasium as leorninghus, whereas Latin thermae is interpreted as either bæphus or baepstow.39 The Old English also suppresses Apollonius’s self-anointing with oil, perhaps because the abstruse “utitur liquore...

... the structure of the polity in which they lived and about the exercise of power, the processes of counsel giving and taking, of debate and discussion, through which policy was to be made and order maintained. These difficulties have been compounded by the disinclination of many historians of political...

..., fol. 533v. This assertion of the intrinsic worth of Virgilian nugae was a frequently expressed and heavily loaded topos in this period among the writers with whom Vegio was in contact. This network also critically valued the writing of trifling verse as an exercise that enabled poets...