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Author Ritchey, Sara Margaret, author

Title Holy matter : changing perceptions of the material world in late medieval Christianity / Sara Ritchey
Published Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2014
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Contents The mirror of holy virginity -- Virginitas and viriditas -- Clare of Assisi and the ligna of crucifixion -- The Franciscan bough -- An estranged wilderness
Summary "A magnificent proliferation of new Christ-centered devotional practices--including affective meditation, imitative suffering, crusade, Eucharistic cults and miracles, passion drama, and liturgical performance--reveals profound changes in the Western Christian temperament of the twelfth century and beyond. This change has often been attributed by scholars to an increasing emphasis on God's embodiment in the incarnation and crucifixion of Christ. In Holy Matter, Sara Ritchey offers a fresh narrative explaining theological and devotional change by journeying beyond the human body to ask how religious men and women understood the effects of God's incarnation on the natural, material world. She finds a remarkable willingness on the part of medieval Christians to embrace the material world--its trees, flowers, vines, its worms and wolves--as a locus for divine encounter"-- Publisher's Web site
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
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Subject Nature -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church -- History of doctrines -- Middle Ages, 600-1500
Spiritual life -- Christianity -- History of doctrines -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Natural theology -- History of doctrines -- Middle Ages, 600-1500
Theology, Doctrinal -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.
RELIGION -- Christian Theology -- General.
Spiritual life -- Christianity -- History of doctrines -- Middle Ages
Theology, Doctrinal -- Middle Ages
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Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780801470950
0801470951