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Facing God: Contemporary American Devotional Poetry
<p>My thesis examines the connection between scripture and contemporary American poetry. Scripture is inherently poetic, employing devices that require analysis and explication. Poets drawing from scriptural text for narrative, language, or form are not looking to replace scripture, or even enhance …
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The Devotional Significance of the Cross in Medieval Literature
<p>The cross is the most widely recognized symbol of Christianity. The necessary instrument of Christ's crucifixion, the cornerstone of Christian belief, the cross's basic form and shape has been easily adapted to various uses, media, and symbolism. It exists throughout the medieval period as a …
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Sixteenth Century Morisco Devotional Manuscripts in their Mediterranean Contexts
… the language, composition and contents of their devotional manuscripts, I demonstrate an alternative perspective from the current historiography. While the predominant narrative tends to focus upon the Moriscos as 'crypto-Muslims' and 'minorities', this was not the case for all Moriscos. The …
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Intimate Exegesis: Reading and Feeling in Early Modern Devotional Literature
“Intimate Exegesis” proposes that early modern devotional literature offers feeling, and particularly bad feeling, as a productive matrix for interpretation. In this body of work, feeling – haptic, sensory, affective – generates an intimacy between reader and text in a reading practice that is also …
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A Critical Anthology of English Recusant Devotional Prose, 1558-1603
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-03T20:52:42Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6206216.pdf: 33821967 bytes, checksum: e95343ca605c8b1f3e6a9af123d35bd3 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1962
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English Puritans: Their History, Theology, Practice, and Joy English Puritan Devotional
… research and textual analysis is an 8-week devotional based off of Puritan literature. Each week focuses on a different Puritan, containing a biography, excerpts from their work, my commentary, and a bible verse that applies to the text.</p>
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Pilgrimage through the pages: pilgrim's badges in late medieval devotional manuscripts
In the late Middle Ages, pilgrims travelling to popular holy shrines often purchased small, inexpensive metal badges to commemorate their visit. While these souvenirs were frequently worn on one’s clothing, hat, or bag, pilgrims began sewing the badges into the pages of their private prayer …
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En/gendering representations of childbirth in fifteenth-century Franco-Flemish devotional manuscripts
… f childbirth in fifteenth-century devotional and historical manuscripts are invariably depicted as postpartum confinement scenes in a domestic interior. These images appear to show a `gendered space' in which women care for each other and men are marginalized. Neglected by medieval …
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Valued Copies: Devotional Practice and Painting Workshop Production in the Burgundian Netherlands
… dissertation examines the widespread copying of devotional paintings in the Burgundian Netherlands as the result of both the utility of such paintings for prayer and, related to it, the need of workshops rapidly to produce for the open market.</p> <p> Part I treats the cultural and economic …
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The assembled body: Anatomical enumeration and embodiment in Anglo-Saxon devotional texts
… Enumeration and Embodiment in Anglo-Saxon Devotional Texts"" argues that Anglo-Saxon Christians viewed the material body as a potent site for spiritual transformation. This notion finds its fullest expression in the rhetorical scheme of anatomical enumeration which appears across a diverse …
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Lines of Relation: Devotional Verse and Active Reading in Late Medieval English Books
… England. I then draw on my archival research of devotional poems in fifteenth-century manuscripts and early print books to analyze the linear workings of three poems for penitential introspection and ethical sensitization: John Lydgate’s Kalendare (which I discuss in chapter 2), Thomas Brampton’s …
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Goddess in Flux: Devotional Intimacy and Everyday Life at a Regional Indian Pilgrimage Site
… and gender in contemporary India by exploring devotional intimacies and everyday life in the shadows of the regional pilgrimage temple of Rani Bhatiyani, a Hindu goddess, in rural Rajasthan. Informed by scholarship on lived religion, it examines aspects of rural life that have hitherto been …
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A Poetics of the Soul: Devotional Poetry in Elizabeth Barrett Browning; Alfred, Lord Tennyson; and Christina Rossetti
This study explores devotional poetry of the nineteenth century as a poetic discourse in which tropes of the human soul connect spiritual reflection with lived experience in order to engage literary, religious, and social issues in Victorian England. Like G. B. Tennyson's Victorian Devotional …
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Displacement and Reconfiguration: The Effects of the Florentine Guasto of 1529 on Devotional Spaces and Networks of Artistic Patronage
On 29 September 1529, with Charles V’s troops marching towards Florence, the city authorities decided to implement a dramatic military strategy called *guasto*. Under this blanket decree all buildings within a mile of the city walls were to be demolished for purposes of defence. The decree affected …
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The Role of Devotion (mos gus) in Tibetan Heart Essence Traditions: Devotional Affect and Its Relationship to Dzogchen’s Foundational Practices (rdzogs chen)
… (mos gus) in Tibetan Heart Essence Traditions: Devotional Affect and Its Relationship to Dzogchen’s Foundational Practices (rdzogs chen) examines how devotion, faith (dad pa), and awakened mind (byang chub kyi sems) function philosophically and epistemologically and in contemplative practices …
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Simple books for devout readers: Recovering a fifteenth-century middle English genre
… that these books constitute a Middle English devotional genre, which I call the Simple Book. All of these books not only share a format, they also share similar types of devotional texts, and ultimately the format and texts work in tandem to create a humble, devotional reading experience. The …
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From Fear of Hell to Love of Christ: The Monastic Devotional Use of MS K.21 in the Library of St. John's College, Cambridge
… illustrated narrative, and explores the possible devotional utility of the volume in a monastic context. Stemming from the work of Lucy Freeman Sandler and Paul Binski, I argue that the volume was created in England over two main phases of c.1275-c.1300 and c.1280-c.1310, most likely for an …
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The Relationship Between Parental Influence and Christian Spiritual Practices Among Adventist youth in Puerto Rico
… practices. The dependent variables were devotional practices and church attendance practices. The control variables were age and gender. These variables were tested using ANOVA, two-way ANOVA, Pearson correlation coefficient, and multiple regression.</p> <p>Results. Twenty-seven parental …
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Pilgrimage, Spatial Interaction, and Memory at Three Marian Sites
… of pilgrimage and tourism, commercial place and devotional place, and cultural and spiritual value. They also show varied degrees of spatial porousness, either topographically or in their connection to surrounding areas of cultural heritage. Porousness is interdependent with contestation as …
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