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Reading in the wilderness : private devotion and public performance in late medieval England
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- Creator
- Jessica Brantley
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- Books
- Language
- English
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- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007
- Physical Details
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- xviii, 463 pages, 8 pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0226071340, 9786611959197, 9780226071329, 0226071324, 1281959197
- OCLC
- on1135576079, ocn476229022, ocn123079186
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [395]-448) and indexes.
- Introduction: The performance of reading -- "Silence visible" : Carthusian devotional reading and meditative practice -- Backgrounds : the Carthusian Order -- Carthusians and books -- Carthusians and art -- The shapes of eremitic reading in the desert of religion : the desert of religion as imagetext -- "ALS wildernes is wroght þis boke" : formats of monastic books -- Reading spiritual community in the wilderness -- Lyric imaginings and painted prayers -- The eremitic lyric and Richard Rolle -- Imagining the Carthusian reader -- Liturgical pageantry in private spaces -- Reading the liturgy : two models -- Performing the holy name -- Performing the canonical hours -- Performing the seven sacraments -- Envisioning dialogue in performance -- "In maner of a dyaloge it wente" -- Allegorical dialogues : the pylgremage of the soul -- Mystical dialogues : the treatise of the seven points -- Dramatizing the cell : theatrical performances in monastic reading -- Dramatic texts, lyric voices, and private readers -- Theatrical reading in additional 37049 -- Monastic closet drama -- Conclusion: Reading performances