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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"ars moriendi"”.
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Ars moriendi - Mittelalterliche Sterbekunst als Vorbild für eine neuzeitliche Sterbekultur
… hat zum Ziel, Merkmale der mittelalterlichen Ars-moriendi-Kultur herauszustellen und zu überprüfen, ob sich diese Merkmale in eine neuzeitliche Ansicht von Tod und Sterben integrieren lassen würden. Hierzu wurde eine mittelalterliche Handschrift der Ars-moriendi-Tradition transkribiert und …
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Death Will Die: Finding Eternal Life from a Johannine Ars Moriendi
… thesis argues that Christians should develop an Ars Moriendi from the Johannine literature, which recenters death and dying with an eternal perspective, drawing on the beliefs and practices of the Christian tradition to help Christians die well. Chapter 1 describes the Ars Moriendi tradition and …
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'Painful Passages': Death, Ritual, and Literature in Post -Reformation England
… Donne, religious allegory by John Bunyan, and ars moriendi literature by a range of Protestant writers, I analyze how elements of ""ritual form"" are adapted in texts seeking to both stabilize and ""reform"" cultural representations of death. My argument also engages with recent work on modern, …
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A Large Frame of the Iconography of Death in the Time of John Donne
… My study must, by definistion, leave out the Ars Moriendi theme which is really a companion study. Furthermore, some very fine contributions of Donne to the representation of Death must be discarded as appertaining to Death’s properties rather than to his actual appearance. The few deviatios …
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Dying to Learn, Learning to Die, The Craft of Dying in Early Modern English Drama and the Cultivation of Dying-Voice Literacy
… protocols of preparation for death known as the ars moriendi (the craft or the art of dying), a continental literary tradition born in the late medieval period. Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatists I show, aim at more than merely representing the agonal process; living in a moment of religious …
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Models of Confession: Penitential Writing in Late Medieval England
… to Die," one of the earliest treatments of the Ars moriendi theme. Examining some of the differences between sacramental confession and deathbed confession, I show how the absence of the sacrament in this dramatic account of unprepared death emphasizes the power of God's grace and limitations of …
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The Pastoral Image: Guillaume de Deguileville’s Spiritual Pedagogy in the Pèlerinage Allegories
… Council: ‘To guide souls is the art of arts’ (ars artium regimen animarum). Deguileville depicts the soul as a malformed, misshapen thing when it is captured by sin, increasingly conceiving of the soul as dependent on the mechanics of grace. I argue that this shift, especially apparent in the …
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Works of Mercy: Literature, Compassion, and Devotion in Early Modern England
… of suffering (articulated in the early modern ars moriendi tradition) which attempts to convert worldly pain into spiritual joy, and to understand the suffering of others as beneficial to the self. Chapter 3, “Consuming Mercy: George Herbert and the Poetics of Compassion” reads devotional …