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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"private devotion"”.
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Tracing the Trend from Public Piety to Private Devotion in Western European Reliquaries of the Middle Ages
… as reflective of the trend from public piety to private devotion. Reliquaries in the form of the head, bust, and whole body merit particular emphasis as they elicit greater personal response on the part of the devotee. Therefore, extant ninth and tenth century examples of these are important …
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Private devotion in England on the eve of the Reformation illustrated from works printed or reprinted in the period 1530-40
… a detailed description of the different types of devotional literature (excluding all liturgical books, biblical translations, doctrinal and polemic works, saintS lives and sermons) available in print to English readers in the years immediately preceding England's break with Rome. It shows that …
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"Sed rudibus et indoctis" : women, orthodoxy, and the Rosebery Rolle Manuscript.
… Psalter was compiled specifically for a woman's private devotion and thus sheds light on both the authors and the readers of the growing devotional movement in late medieval England. Furthermore, by contextualizing Rolle's work within this devotional movement, as well as by examining the themes …
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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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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 …