...’ Creed. The work thus offers a new way of conceiving both women’s affective piety and the relationship between vernacular and clerical theology. Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018 A Christian Mannes Bileeve Apostles’ Creed medieval affective spirituality reason and emotion...

...Patricia Dailey Hadewijch of Brabant's seventh vision of union with the Eucharist has often been cited as exemplifying the embodied nature of medieval women's spirituality. This essay recontextualizes the way embodiment and gender are conceived of through an analysis of the figures and functions...

..., for example, would be unrecognizable without the tendentious opposition between the “affective piety” of the late medieval church and the intellectualized engagements with the word pro- moted by Protestant reformers.2 It is a staple of medieval and early modern scholarship, and it informs virtually all...

... and the Public Contemplative in Late Medieval England: Richard Methley and His Spiritual Formation Katherine Zieman University of Notre Dame...

... available in physically and spiritually concrete ways to those who read or hear the text. © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 medieval spirituality and meditation medical language and metaphor physiology of the heart Henry Duke of Lancaster Livre de Seyntz Medicines...

... According to the medieval mode of thought, imagination was a way to make unreal or surreal entities real. Imagination was capable of affecting people since both the inner and outer senses were avenues for sense perceptions. The inner, spiritual senses were analogous to the physical senses, but they were...

.... Techyng is his version of the Latin doctrina : “teaching and instruction,” or “the knowledge imparted by teaching.” 35 Medieval doctrina , broadly conceived, was the duty “of those advanced in spirituality and learning to develop and defend the teachings of revelation for benefit of the larger...

... language. The study of medical discourse and its flexibility connects with work on the history of the emotions, on affect and feeling, on disability, on cognition and sense perception, and on form and genre. Many of the essays here consider reading as an embodied practice and explore how the practice...

... proximity. These poems refuse to imagine the redemption of soul without body, or to praise spiritualized love 210  Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 42.1 / 2012 divorced from proximate interactions. Just as importantly, this means that marriage is presented as a site for thinking...

...-Reformation plowman has long been read as an uncomplicated spokesman for an anticlerical Protestantism. This article argues, in contrast, that these plowmen are evidence of a continuing interest in a medieval Catholic symbolic imagination centered on work–as physical labor and as spiritual labor, such as good...

... proclaims a certain positive contiguity between sexual and spiritual desire is to court the admonition of numerous 386 Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 30.2 / 2000 experts. My invocation of Reformed theology to explain Browne’s use of “confession” in the context of such an argument...

..., Gra- tiano reasons, the Jew must be guilty in a deeper, spiritual reckoning — as if his sins belonged to a ghostly and lupine former identity. Gratiano also speaks “nothing” in a more literal sense, identifying an empty space through which the guilty wolf-­soul flies. This space...

..., but affectively. By experiencing this painful difficulty alongside Augustine, the reader is made to suffer distentio animi. Throughout the Devotions, Donne’s attempts to assign causality to his illness require a painful contemplation across past, present, and future 172  Journal of Medieval...

... of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 41:2, Spring 2011 DOI 10.1215/10829636-1218340  © 2011 by Duke University Press from God (26.11  –  12).5 This “smiting” is the central activity of spiritual prac- tice; devout “smiting” enables the spiritual practitioner to penetrate into the cloud...

..., the play offers a critique of the potential excesses of dramatic and affective reenactments of the Passion, particularly given the association for the reader of the Jews with stages and fakery, and the association for the audience of Jews with metatheatricality. In context of late medieval...

... between time-­keeping and particu- lar sects, far less attention has been paid to descriptions of time in spiritual 540  Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 42.3 / 2012 self-­writing, which I wish to address.10 Since I focus on a particular group of nuns, I do not consider here...

... encounter with Wisdom, it is clear that her role as the sponsa of bridal mysticism is compromised by her inability to connect carnal meanings to their spiritual significance. As writers in the affective tradition were well aware, a possible danger in that mode of devotion lay in a reader’s inability...

...- cal or historical digressions or apocryphal stories that might prompt devo- 114 Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 51.1 / 2021 tion. Also, noticeably, he removes references to sites and stories that might trigger affective forms of devotion to Christ s wounds or to the Virgin Mary. Yet...

... combined with the developments in medieval spirituality that produced an array of lay religious groups during this period, suggests that Cistercian policy considered enclosure to be important symbolically more than pragmatically. Unlike Periculoso , the aim was never unilaterally to confine women...

... histoire médiévale, vol. 44. Paris: CNRS éditions, 2018. 205 pp. eur 50.00. Hillman, Jennifer, and Elizabeth C. Tingle, eds. Soul Travel: Spiritual Jour- neys in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2019. vi, 282 pp., 7 figs. $82.95. Hurlock, Kathryn. Medieval Welsh Pilgrimage, c...