The Materiality of Devotion in Late Medieval Northern Europe: Images, Objects and Practices

The Materiality of Devotion in Late Medieval Northern Europe: Images, Objects and Practices
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Four Courts Press Ltd
Country
Ireland
Published
31 January 2016
Pages
202
ISBN
9781846825033

The Materiality of Devotion in Late Medieval Northern Europe: Images, Objects and Practices

This volume explores aspects of the devotional world of late medieval northern Europe, with a special emphasis on how people interacted with texts, images, artefacts and other instruments of piety at the level of the senses. It focuses on the materiality of medieval religion and the manner in which Christians were encouraged to engage their senses in their devotional practices: gazing, hearing, touching, tasting and committing to memory. In so doing, it brings together the ideals of medieval mystical writing and the increasingly tangible and material practice of piety, which would become characteristic of the period.

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