Lectio Divina The Medieval Experience of Reading

Name: Lectio Divina The Medieval Experience of Reading
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ISBN: 9780879072384

ISBN-10: 0879072385

ISBN-13: 9780879072384

Edition: 2011

Authors: Duncan Robertson

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During the Middle Ages the act of reading was experienced intensively in the monastic exercise of "lectio divina" 'the prayerful scrutiny of passages of Scripture, savored in meditation, memorized, recited, and rediscovered in the reader's own religious life. The rich literary tradition that arose from this culture includes theoretical writings from the "Conferences" of John Cassian (fifth century) through the twelfth-century treatises of Hugh of St. Victor and the Carthusian Guigo II; it also includes compilations, literary meditations, and scriptural commentary, notably on the Song of Songs. This study brings medievalist research together with modern theoretical reflections on the act of…

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List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Publication date: 12/1/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 280
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.924
Language: English

Duncan Robertson has taught French and Latin, language and literature, at Augusta State University since 1990. Previous publications include The Medieval Saints' Lives: Spiritual Renewal and Old French Literature (Lexington, KY: French Forum, 1995), and The Vernacular Spirit: Essays on Medieval Religious Literature, with Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski and Nancy Warren (New York: Palgrave, 2002). His articles have appeared in Romance Philology, French Forum, Cahiers de Civilisation M di vale, and other journals in the United States and abroad.



List of Abbreviations


Preface


Lectio Divina


In the Monastery


Reading and Exegesis


Reading beyond Reading



Scholarly Contexts: Ressourcement and Research


Ressourcement


Jean Leclercq


Henri de Lubac


Research and Practice


Implications for Literary Theory



The Interpretation of the Scriptures


Letter and Spirit


Origen's On First Principles


Saint Augustine


Saint Gregory the Great



Reading and Meditation


Classical Education


The Conversion of Reading


Cassian's Conferences


Reading in the Monastery



Reading into Writing


Chapters on Reading


Liturgy and Private Prayer


Carolingian Libelli Precum



The Extension of Meditation


John of Fï¿½camp's Confessio theologica


Saint Anselm of Canterbury's Orationes sive meditationes



Reading the Song of Songs


Origen's Commentary on the Song of Songs


Origen's Homilies on the Song of Songs


Gregory's Exposition on the Song of Songs


Bernard of Clairvaux's Sermons on the Song of Songs


Bernard's Reading Project


Allegorical Analysis


The Voice of the Bride



The Twelfth-Century Integration


Meditatio and Meditationes


Hugh of Saint-Victor


Guigo II



The Book of Experience


Select Bibliography


Index