Sarah McNamer

Meditations on the Life of Christ

The Short Italian Text

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Produktbeschreibung

The Meditations on the Life of Christ was the most popular and influential devotional work of the later Middle Ages. With its lively dialogue and narrative realism, its poignant and moving depictions of the Nativity and Passion, and its direct appeals to the reader to feel love and compassion, the Meditations had a major impact on devotional practices, religious art, meditative literature, vernacular drama, and the cultivation of affective experience. This volume is a critical edition, with English translation and commentary, of a hitherto-unpublished Italian text that McNamer argues is likely to be the original version of this influential masterpiece. Livelier and far more compact than the Latin text, the Italian "short text" possesses a stylistic and textual integrity that appears to testify to its primacy among early versions of the Meditations. The evidence also suggests that it was composed by a woman, a Poor Clare from Pisa-an author whose work McNamer contends was obscured by the anonymous Franciscan friar who subsequently altered and expanded the text. In bringing to light this unique Italian version and building a case for its origins and importance, this book will encourage a fresh look at the Meditations and serve as a foundation for further scholarship and debate concerning some of the most compelling subjects in Italian and European literary and cultural history, including the role of women in the invention of new genres and spiritual practices, the early development of Italian prose narrative, the rise of vernacular theology, and the history of emotion. McNamer's volume will be of significant interest to medievalists, especially those who study medieval women, devotional literature, manuscript studies, and textual criticism. The linguistic analysis expands that audience to include those of a philological bent.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Notre Dame Press
• Seitenzahl: 446
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 870g
• ISBN-13: 9780268102852
• ISBN-10: 0268102856
• Artikelnr.: 48096526

Autorenporträt

Sarah McNamer is professor of English and medieval studies at Georgetown University. She is the author of Affective Meditation and the Invention of Medieval Compassion (2010).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
Textual History
Authorship
Date and Place of Composition
The Manuscript
Editorial Principles
A Note on the Translation
Linguistic Analysis by Pär Larson, Istituto Opera del Vocabolario Italiano
Meditations on the Life of Christ: The Short Italian Text
Prologue. Here begins the prologue of the meditations on the life of Our
Lord Jesus Christ, whose teaching is the seed of prudence, whose life is
the mirror of temperance and patience.
1. Here begins the Incarnation of Our Lord Jesus Christ.
2. How Our Lady went to visit Saint Elizabeth
3. How Joseph wished to abandon Our Lady.
4. How Lord Jesus Christ was born into the world.
5. How Our Lord Jesus was circumcised.
6. How the kings came to worship Christ with their gifts.
7. How Lord Christ Our Lord was presented at the temple.
8. How Our Lady fled into Egypt with Lord Jesus.
9. How Our Lady returned from Egypt to Nazareth.
10. How the child Lord Jesus remained in Jerusalem.
11. How Our Lord remained subject to his mother and to Joseph from the time
he was twelve years old until thirty; and of the things that you may
imagine that he did during this time, even though it is not found in any
scripture that he did anything.
12. How Our Lord Jesus Christ went to the river Jordan to be baptized by
Saint John.
13. How Lord Jesus Christ fasted forty days and forty nights in the desert
and how he was tempted by the devil.
14. How Lord Jesus Christ Our Lord entered Jerusalem on Palm Sunday on a
donkey.
15. How Our Lord Jesus dined on Holy Wednesday with his disciples in
Bethany in the house of Magdalene.
16. How Lord Jesus celebrated the supper on Holy Thursday with his
disciples on Mount Syon.
17. How Our Lord Jesus Christ washed the feet of his disciples, and how he
established the sacrament of his own body and gave it to his disciples.
18. Of the beautiful sermon that Lord Jesus Christ gave to his disciples
after communion, and the departure of Judas.
19. How Lord Jesus Christ went to the garden.
20. How Judas came with the high priests to capture Lord Jesus in the
garden with weapons and lances and lanterns.
21. How Lord Jesus was led to Pilate at prime.
22. How Our Lord Jesus Christ was bound naked to a column, and how he was
harshly flogged.
23. How Pilate sentenced our savior Lord Jesus Christ to death on the
cross, and how he carried the cross on his shoulders, and what was done to
him, and how Our Lady went to see him.
24. How Lord Jesus was put on the cross between two thieves to increase his
shame.
25. How the soldiers of Pilate came to Mount Calvary to break the legs of
the thieves and Lord Jesus.
26. How Joseph and Nichodemus came to Mount Calvary to take the body of
Lord Jesus down from the cross.
27. How on Saturday Our Lady remained at the house with the doors locked
for fear of the Jews, and how the disciples gathered together.
28. How the soul of Christ went to limbo, and how he rose, and how he
appeared to his mother and to the three Marys, and other things that he
did.
29. How Lord Jesus appeared to his disciples the week after the
Resurrection while they were staying at home with the doors locked; and
other things that one can conclude that he did.
30. How Our Lord Jesus ascended into heaven and finished his journey.
Notes
Bibliography