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Solitudo : spaces, places, and times of solitude in late Medieval and early modern cultures

Title: Solitudo : spaces, places, and times of solitude in late Medieval and early modern cultures / edited by Karl A.E. Enenkel ; Christine Göttler.
Publication: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]

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Description

xxxiv, 568 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

This book explores the spatial, material, and affective dimensions of solitude in the late medieval and early modern periods, a hitherto largely neglected topic. Its focus is on the dynamic qualities of "space" and "place", which are here understood as being shaped, structured, and imbued with meaning through both social and discursive solitary practices such as reading, writing, studying, meditating, and praying. Individual chapters investigate the imageries and imaginaries of outdoor and indoor spaces and places associated with solitude and its practices and examine the ways in which the space of solitude was conceived of, imagined, and represented in the arts and in literature, from about 1300 to about 1800.

Series Statement

Intersections : interdisciplinary studies in early modern culture, 1568-1181 ; volume 56

Uniform Title

Intersections (Boston, Mass.) ; v. 56.

Subjects

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Solitude in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Foundations, shifts, and transformations -- Petrarch's constructions of the sacred solitary place in De Vita Solitaria and other writings / Karl A.E. Enenkel -- Monastic solitude as spiritual remedy and firewall against reformation: Cornelius Musius's reappraisal of the Vita Solitaria (1566) / Karl A.E. Enenkel -- Concepts of solitude in Jacobus de Voragine's Legenda Aurea / Dominic E. Delarue -- 'Sacred woods': Performing solitude at the court of Duke Wilhelm V of Bavaria / Christine Göttler -- Solitude in the pictorial and emblematic imagination -- Anachoretic ideals in urban settings: Meditational practices and mural painting in Trecento Italy / Raphaèle Preisinger -- Constructing the imaginary desert of the soul in emblematic literature / Agnès Guiderdoni -- Emblemata solitariae Passionis: Jan David, S.J., on the solitary passion of Christ / Walter S. Melion -- Landscapes of solitude -- Giovanni Bellini's San Francesco nel deserto / Oskar Bätschmann -- Landscapes and visual exegesis: Solitude in the Chapel of Fra Mariano Fetti in San Silvestro al Quirinale / Steffen Zierholz -- Alone at the summit: Solitude and the ascetic imagination at the Sacro Monte of Varallo / Carla Benzan -- Architectures of solitude -- Dead men talking: The Studiolo of Urbino. A Duke in mourning and the Petrarchan tradition / Christiane J. Hessler -- Sociable solitude: The early modern hermitage as proto-museum / Arnold A. Witte -- A solitude of permeable boundaries: The Abbey of La Trappe between isolation and engagement / Mette Birkedal Bruun -- Mirrors and memories: The Chinese mirror cabinet at the Hermitage near Bayreuth / Marie Theres Stauffer -- Solitude in antiquarian and natural history -- The prophetess in the woods: The early modern debate about Veleda, Aurinia, and Vola / Bernd Roling -- Passer solitarius: Tribulations of a lonely bird in poetry and natural history, from Petrarch to Buffon / Paul J. Smith.

Call Number

JQE 18-823

ISBN

9789004349926
9004349928

LCCN

2018015623

OCLC

1028845884

Title

Solitudo : spaces, places, and times of solitude in late Medieval and early modern cultures / edited by Karl A.E. Enenkel ; Christine Göttler.

Publisher

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Intersections : interdisciplinary studies in early modern culture, 1568-1181 ; volume 56

Intersections (Boston, Mass.) ; v. 56.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Enenkel, K. A. E., editor.

Göttler, Christine, editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Solitudo. Leiden ; Boston, Brill, [2018] 9789004367432 (DLC) 2018030007

Research Call Number

JQE 18-823

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