Solitudo

Karl A.E. Enenkel is Professor of Medieval Latin and Neo-Latin at the University of Münster. He was formerly Professor of Neo-Latin at the University of Leiden. He has published widely on international humanism, early modern culture, paratexts, literary genres 1300-1600, Neo-Latin emblems, word and image relationships, and the history of scholarship and science.Christine Göttler is Professor emerita of Art History at the University of Bern. She has published extensively on diverse topics ranging from Reformation iconoclasm, post-Tridentine spirituality, and the relationship between art, nature, and the senses to historical aspects of early modern artists’ materials and the visual and spatial imagery of interiority and the imagination.

“This edited volume is indispensable for anyone pursuing research in the formation of the cultures of modernity. The students of the history of culture, literature, art, and architecture of late medieval and early modern period of the West will equally find this book an important addition to their resources.”Mehran Qureshi, in: Reading Religion, 1 October 2020.

• AcknowledgementsNotes on the EditorsNotes on the ContributorsList of Illustrations1 Realms of Solitude in Late Medieval and Early Modern European Cultures: An IntroductionChristine GöttlerPart 1: Solitude in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Foundations, Shifts, and Transformations2 Petrarch’s Constructions of the Sacred Solitary Place in De vita solitaria and Other WritingsKarl A.E. Enenkel3 Monastic Solitude as Spiritual Remedy and Firewall against Reformation: Cornelius Musius’s Reappraisal of the Vita Solitaria (1566)Karl A.E. Enenkel4 Concepts of Solitude in Jacobus de Voragine’s Legenda aureaDominic E. Delarue5 ‘Sacred Woods’: Performing Solitude at the Court of Duke Wilhelm V of BavariaChristine GöttlerPart 2: Solitude in the Pictorial and Emblematic Imagination6 Anachoretic Ideals in Urban Settings: Meditational Practices and Mural Painting in Trecento ItalyRaphaèle Preisinger7 Constructing the Imaginary Desert of the Soul in Emblematic LiteratureAgnès Guiderdoni8 Emblemata solitariae Passionis: Jan David, S.J., on the Solitary Passion of ChristWalter S. MelionPart 3: Landscapes of Solitude9 Giovanni Bellini’s San Francesco nel desertoOskar Bätschmann10 Landscapes and Visual Exegesis: Solitude in the Chapel of Fra Mariano Fetti in San Silvestro al QuirinaleSteffen Zierholz11 Alone at the Summit: Solitude and the Ascetic Imagination at the Sacro Monte of VaralloCarla BenzanPart 4: Architectures of Solitude12 Dead Men Talking: The Studiolo of Urbino. A Duke in Mourning and the Petrarchan TraditionChristiane J. Hessler13 Sociable Solitude: The Early Modern Hermitage as Proto-MuseumArnold A. Witte14 A Solitude of Permeable Boundaries: The Abbey of La Trappe between Isolation and EngagementMette Birkedal Bruun15 Mirrors and Memories: The Chinese Mirror Cabinet at the Hermitage near BayreuthMarie Theres StaufferPart 5: Solitude in Antiquarian and Natural History16 The Prophetess in the Woods: The Early Modern Debate about Veleda, Aurinia, and VolaBernd Roling17 Passer solitarius: Tribulations of a Lonely Bird in Poetry and Natural History, from Petrarch to BuffonPaul J. SmithIndex Nominum