You are looking at Egeria and Paula? For they describe the Bible readings in
situ at the Holy Places. Jean LeClercq, _Love of Learning and Desire for
God_, is excellent on 'lectio divina' and the mode of thought and writing it
generated, versus that of the universities. Pilgrim manuals often anchor
place and text, especially for the 42 Stations of the Exodus - which show up
again in Dante's _Vita Nuova_.
At 07.21 10/12/97 -0700, you wrote:
>Dear List members,
>
> I am doing some work on lectio divina in my work on women's
>pilgrimages, as well as for a retreat on the same topic. I'm familiar
>with some modern work on it, from the spirituality side, and everyone
>ascribes it to the middle ages, generally St. Benedict and Benedictine
>monasticism. The Rule certainly doesn't say much (I don't remember it
>saying anything specific). Does anyone know who wrote about it in the
>middle ages or how it was understood? Are there modern scholarly
>sources?
>
>Thanks,
>Kris Utterback
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'For I understood that we may laugh, in comforting of ourself and joying in
God, for the fiend is overcome'. Julian of Norwich, _Showings_, Paris
Manuscript, fol. 28
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