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Meditatio : refashioning the self : theory and practice in late medieval and early modern intellectual culture /
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 eval...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Other Authors: | , |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
| Published: |
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2011.
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| Series: | Intersections (Boston, Mass.) ;
v. 17. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | 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 in. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xx, 439 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789004210561 9004210563 |