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Sensual encounters: monastic women and spirituality in medieval Germany

Erika Lauren Lindgren 2014 © Columbia University Press
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  • 9780231142380 (hardcover)
  • 9780231509541 (ebook)
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  • European: 1400-1800
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  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright and Permissions
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Preface
  • Introduction: The Sensual Environment
    • Introduction
    • The Sensual Environment and Spirituality
    • Dominican Women and Religious Movements in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries
    • Dominican Women and Mysticism
    • Dominican Women and Modern Scholarship
    • Dominican Women and Their Sources
  • Chapter 1 Space: A Garden of Virtues in Which to Delight: The Spatial Environment
    • Female Dominican Monasteries
    • The Church and Choir
    • The Cloister and Chapterhouse
    • The Infirmary, Refectory, and Kitchen
    • The Dormitories, Workrooms, and Gardens
    • Female Space / Sacred Space / Sensual Space
  • Chapter 2 Sight: “And She Prayed One Time Before the Large Image...”: The Visual Environment
    • Introduction
    • The Choir
    • Christocentric Images
    • The Beloved and the Baptist
    • Dominican Women, the Virgin Mary, and Other Images
    • Connections with the Outside World
  • Chapter 3 Sound: Make a Joyful Noise: The Acoustical Environment
    • Silence and Sound in the Monastic Tradition
    • The Stopped-Up Oven: Silence
    • Sound Regulated by Ritual
    • The Words of God: Praying, Talking, and Preaching
    • The Sounds of Spirituality
  • Chapter 4 Seeing and Hearing: A Book With Golden Letters: The Textual Environment
    • The Language of Spirituality: Reading, Writing, and Reciting Latin and the Vernacular
    • The Manuscripts of German Dominican Women
    • In the Beginning: The Psalter
    • Graduals, Antiphonals, and Processionals
    • Other Liturgical Manuscripts
    • Textual Spirituality and the Two Johns
  • Conclusion: Sensual Encounters
  • Notes
    • Introduction: The Sensual Environment
    • Chapter 1 Space: A Garden of Virtues in Which to Delight: The Spatial Environment
    • Chapter 2 Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany
    • Chapter 3 Sound: Make a Joyful Noise: The Acoustical Environment
    • Chapter 4 Seeing and Hearing: A Book With Golden Letters: The Textual Environment
    • Conclusion: Sensual Encounters
  • Sequence for John the Evangelist
  • Bibliography
    • Unpublished Primary Sources
    • Published Primary Sources
    • Reference Works
    • Secondary Sources

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Ascension in initial V.

Ascension in initial V.

Ascension in initial V.

Gift of the Holy Spirit in initial S.

Gift of the Holy Spirit in initial S.

Gift of the Holy Spirit in initial S.

Initial D opening psalm 38.

Initial D opening psalm 38.

Initial D opening psalm 38.

Grave marker for one of the founders of Unterlinden, Agnes Hergenheim.

Grave marker for one of the founders of Unterlinden, Agnes Hergenheim.

Grave marker for one of the founders of Unterlinden, Agnes Hergenheim.

Initial B opening psalm 1, Beatus vir.

Initial B opening psalm 1, Beatus vir.

Initial B opening psalm 1, Beatus vir.

Saint Dominic in initial E.

Saint Dominic in initial E.

Saint Dominic in initial E.

Ribbed arches, vaults, and half capitals of the Unterlinden choir.

Ribbed arches, vaults, and half capitals of the Unterlinden choir.

Ribbed arches, vaults, and half capitals of the Unterlinden choir.

John the Baptist with Agnus Dei.

John the Baptist with Agnus Dei.

John the Baptist with Agnus Dei.

Elongated choir of seven bays in the Unterlinden church.

Elongated choir of seven bays in the Unterlinden church.

Elongated choir of seven bays in the Unterlinden church.

John the Baptist with Dominican nuns in initial D.

John the Baptist with Dominican nuns in initial D.

John the Baptist with Dominican nuns in initial D.

Gift of the Holy Spirit in initial S.

Gift of the Holy Spirit in initial S.

Gift of the Holy Spirit in initial S.

Initial D opening psalm 101.

Initial D opening psalm 101.

Initial D opening psalm 101.

Litany of the Saints with additions made.

Litany of the Saints with additions made.

Litany of the Saints with additions made.

John the Baptist in initial D.

John the Baptist in initial D.

John the Baptist in initial D.

John the Baptist.

John the Baptist.

John the Baptist.

Gift of the Holy Spirit in initial S.

Gift of the Holy Spirit in initial S.

Gift of the Holy Spirit in initial S.

Initial B opening psalm 1, Beatus vir, with King David.

Initial B opening psalm 1, Beatus vir, with King David.

Initial B opening psalm 1, Beatus vir, with King David.

Initial Q opening psalm 51 in a ferial or choral psalter.

Initial Q opening psalm 51 in a ferial or choral psalter.

Initial Q opening psalm 51 in a ferial or choral psalter.

John the Baptist in initial D.

John the Baptist in initial D.

John the Baptist in initial D.

Christ and a praying Dominican nun in initial A.

Christ and a praying Dominican nun in initial A.

Christ and a praying Dominican nun in initial A.

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