The experience of monastic meditation in the eleventh and twelfth centuries
When considering the category of religious « experience » in the Middle Ages, many medievalists and scholars of religion reach directly for their collections of late medieval mystical writings, equating religious « experience » with mystical « vision ». Medievalists, and scholars of religion more g...
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Memini
2022
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| Online adgang: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Summary: | When considering the category of religious « experience » in the Middle Ages, many medievalists and scholars of religion reach directly for their collections of late medieval mystical writings, equating religious « experience » with mystical « vision ». Medievalists, and scholars of religion more generally, have often associated « religious experience » with rapture, deeming ineffability and passivity to be the only signs of religious experience’s « genuineness » or « inwardness ». The passi... |
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