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Meditation and Prayer in the Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Monastery

Struggling towards God

Av Lauren Mancia

Del i serien Spirituality and Monasticism, East and West

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This book explores the dimensions of medieval monastic meditation, prayer, and contemplation in the heyday of Benedictine and Cistercian spiritual writing, the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Mancia aims to answer the following questions: What did extra-liturgical prayer and meditation look like for medieval monks and nuns in western medieval Europe? When, where, and how was it practised? Was there a set way to engage with monastic meditation, or were there a variety of medieval monastic meditative experiences in the eleventh and twelfth centuries? What did monks and nuns perceive as the limitations of monastic prayer and meditation, and how did they understand their own imperfections and failures to perform "perfect" devotion? What extra-textual tools—art, manuscripts, diagrams, spaces—did monks and nuns rely upon to stimulate their practices of meditation? What does monastic meditation reveal about the emotional lives of Benedictine and Cistercian monks and nuns in the high Middle Ages? And, finally, what does the monastic struggle to pursue a prayerful Christian life have to teach the secular world of the twenty-first century?
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Lauren Mancia is Associate Professor of History at Brooklyn College, City University of New York. She is the author of Emotional Monasticism: Affective Piety in the Eleventh-Century Monastery of John of Fécamp (2019).

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"[A]n admirably clear and direct introduction to a key area of medieval studies: the nature of monastic prayer. In her account of high medieval monasticism, Mancia centers the complex, evolving practices of prayer and meditation that structured and drove the lives of monks and nuns, both day to day and at the foundational level of motivation and purpose. This approach is timely and much needed: the book will be of great use as a primer on how and why medieval monks and nuns prayed, and a demonstration of the significance of that practice for our scholarship on medieval life, religious and otherwise. [...] Meditation and Prayer is overall exemplary in its accessible, urgent communication of the value and complexity of the medieval monastic life of prayer, and offers a compelling invitation to consider it more holistically as a way of reading, thinking, and living from which real inspiration and learning can be derived."

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