Solitudo : spaces, places, and times of solitude in late medieval and early modern cultures /
This book explores the spatial, material, and affective dimensions of solitude in the late medieval and early modern periods, a hitherto largely neglected topic. Its focus is on the dynamic qualities of "space" and "place", which are here understood as being shaped, structured, a...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Otros Autores: | , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston,
Brill, [2018]
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Colección: | Intersections (Boston, Mass.) ;
v. 56. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Solitude in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Foundations, shifts, and transformations
- Petrarch's constructions of the sacred solitary place in De Vita Solitaria and other writings / Karl A.E. Enenkel
- Monastic solitude as spiritual remedy and firewall against reformation: Cornelius Musius's reappraisal of the Vita Solitaria (1566) / Karl A.E. Enenkel
- Concepts of solitude in Jacobus de Voragine's legenda aurea / Dominic E. Delarue
- 'Sacred woods': Performing solitude at the Court of Duke Wilhelm V of Bavaria / Christine Gottler
- Solitude in the pictorial and emblematic imagination
- Anachoretic ideals in urban settings: Meditational practices and mural painting in Trecento Italy / Raphaele Preisinger
- Constructing the imaginary desert of the soul in emblematic literature / Agnes Guiderdoni
- Emblemata solitariae passionis: Jan David, S.J., on the solitary passion of Christ / Walter S. Melion
- Landscapes of solitude
- Giovanni Bellini's San Francesco nel deserto / Oskar Batschmann
- Landscapes and visual exegesis: Solitude in the Chapel of Fra Mariano Fetti in San Silvestro al Quirinale / Steffen Zierholz
- Alone at the summit: Solitude and the ascetic imagination at the Sacro Monte of Varallo / Carla Benzan
- Dead men talking: The studiolo of Urbino. A Duke in mourning and the petrarchan tradition / Christiane J. Hessler
- Sociable solitude: The early modern hermitage as proto-museum / Arnold A. Witte
- A solitude of permeable boundaries: The Abbey of la Trappe between isolation and engagement / Mette Birkedal Bruun
- Mirrors and memories: The chinese mirror cabinet at the hermitage near Bayreuth / Marie Theres Stauffer
- Solitude in antiquarian and natural history
- The prophetess in the woods: The early modern debate about Veleda, Aurinia, and Vola / Bernd Roling
- Passer solitarius: Tribulations of a lonely bird in poetry and natural history, from petrarch to buffon / Paul J. Smith.