For pietas and devotio, take a look too at Thomas' _Secunda
Secundae_; devotio is an actus religionis, related to cult; pietas in
a way, is taken as devotio to parents and country, in the classical
sense, wereas religio is directed toward God; pietas, devotio and
spiritualitas need also to be interpreted in relationship to religio.
I will be dealing with some of this, focusing on religio, in my
forthcoming monograph, _Religio Augustini. Jordan of Quedlinburg and
the Creation of a Religious Ideology in the Later Middle Ages_
(forthcoming Brill). Thomas' _secunda secundae_ was so very
influential in the later Middle Ages, and even if one cannot simply
assume his definitions were the medieval, or the Medieval,
definitions, they were certainly not without their followers.
Eric Saak
The Netherlands Research School for
Medieval Studies
Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
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