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Inwardness, Individualization, and Religious Agency in the Late Medieval Low Countries: Studies in the 'Devotio Moderna' and Its Contexts

by Rijcklof H. F. Hofman, Johan Oosterman

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  • Publisher: Brepols Publishers

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Recent scholarship on the Middle Ages has highlighted the importance of individualistic tendencies in devotion in both the lay world and religious communities. This interaction between individualization and religious agency has been scrutinized in numerous studies, focusing on the beginnings during the so-called 'Twelfth-Century Renaissance', and further development in the later medieval and early modern periods. However, there has hitherto been relatively little scholarship on the phenomenon in the Devotio Moderna: the flourishing of more personalized forms of devotion in north-western Europe during the later Middle Ages. The essays in this volume redress this gap by exploring the processes of inwardness and the emergent individualization of religious practices in the late medieval Low Countries. The essays explore issues including the early impact of the printing press on devotion; meditational aids such as identification with Christ, prayer cycles, practices of remembrance, and devout songs; and the tension between inner devotion and the ideal of communal piety in male and female religious communities. They also discuss some leading individuals of the Devotio movement. By addressing the Devotio Moderna and its contexts - the emergence of inwardness, individualization, and religious agency in the late medieval Low Countries and surrounding areas - the essays in this volume help to enhance and expand our knowledge of devotion in the late Middle Ages, both in lay circles and in religious communities, and they show the distinct contribution of the Low Countries to the European phenomenon of more personalized forms of devotion.
Inwardness, Individualization, and Religious Agency in the Late Medieval Low Countries: Studies in the 'Devotio Moderna' and Its Contexts and The Essential History of Christianity
The Essential History of ChristianityInwardness, Individualization, and Religious Agency in the Late Medieval Low Countries: Studies in the 'Devotio Moderna' and Its Contexts

  • Book Format

    Hardcover

  • Publisher

    Brepols Publishers

  • Published

    March 2020

  • ISBN

    9782503585390

  • ISBN-10

    2503585396

  • Eden Code

    5088333

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