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medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture After mid-15th-century you could also consider the ubiquitous visual aids to meditation on the Passion, often cheaply-produced small woodblock prints. The Arma Christi or Instruments of the Passion type, for example, featured symbolic representations of various elements in the Passion story (Veronica's veil, nails, dice, the cock that crew, &c.) to guide the reader's memory through meditation of the Passion narrative. Here is an example: http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a351/britishgrenadier/Arma%20Christi/man_of_sorrows.jpg Searching "arma christi" in Google Images turns up quite a lot of images, many medieval, but perhaps one of our art historians can suggest something more scholarly. -- Paul On 3 February 2014 17:21, John Dillon <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture > > One might take note of Michelle Karnes' objection to McNamer's re-dating > of the _Meditationes vitae Christi_ to "c. 1350" (more precisely, on > McNamer's view, between 1336 and 1364); see Karnes, _Imagination, > Meditation, and Cognition in the Middle Ages_ (University of Chicago Press, > 2011), p. 144, n. 6. Karnes' book would also be helpful inasmuch as it > devotes considerable attention to the originally somewhat earlier and quite > widely read meditative texts usually referred to in modern scholarship as > the _Stimulus amoris_ of Jacopo da Milano (James of Milan, Jacobus > Mediolanensis), chapter 14 of whose longer Latin-language version -- > traditionally thought of as the original text -- as edited early in the > last century (Quaracchi: Collegium S. Bonaventurae, 1905; repr., ibid., > 1949) is an especially vivid meditation on Christ's passion. For the > actually rather fluid nature of the _Stimulus amoris_ texts see esp. Falk > Eisermann, "Diversae et plurimae materiae in diversis capitulis: Der > 'Stimulus amoris' als literarisches Dokument der normativen Zentrierung," > _Frühmittelalterliche Studien_ 31 (1997), 214-232. > > Best, > John Dillon > > > On 02/02/14, Diana Hiller wrote: > > medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and > culture A widely-read source and one that may be helpful is the > c.1350 Meditations on the Life of Christ probably written by Giovanni di > Callibus (aka John of Caulibus etc). You could also look at Holly > Flora's The Devout Belief of Imagination (2009) and Sarah McNamer's > Affective Meditation and the Invention of Medieval Compassion (2010) on > this text. > > Diana Hiller > > > > > > > > On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 12:13 PM, Cormack, Margaret Jean < > [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask])" target="1">[log in to unmask]> > wrote: > > > > > medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and > culture > > > Greetings all, > > > > > > Can anyone direct me to discussions, especially primary sources, where > medieval people are encouraged to envision and meditate on the crucifixion, > and/or Mary´s pain observing it? I´m wondering when such forms of > meditation became common, and whether they were limited to monasteries (I > doubt it, but monks and nuns would perhaps be a primary 'audience'.) > > > Meg > > > > > > > > > ********************************************************************** > To join the list, send the message: subscribe medieval-religion YOUR NAME > to: [log in to unmask](javascript:main.compose() To send a message > to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask](javascript:main.compose() > To leave the list, send the message: unsubscribe medieval-religion to: > [log in to unmask](javascript:main.compose() In order to report > problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: > [log in to unmask](javascript:main.compose() For > further information, visit our web site: > http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/medieval-religion > > > > > > > > ********************************************************************** > To join the list, send the message: subscribe medieval-religion YOUR NAME > to: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/medieval-religion > > ********************************************************************** > To join the list, send the message: subscribe medieval-religion YOUR NAME > to: [log in to unmask] > To send a message to the list, address it to: > [log in to unmask] > To leave the list, send the message: unsubscribe medieval-religion > to: [log in to unmask] > In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: > [log in to unmask] > For further information, visit our web site: > http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/medieval-religion > -- Paul Chandler, O.Carm. 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