Practice, Process, and Performance
Shaping a Devotional Habitus in the Margins of Bernard of Clairvaux's Sermons on the Song of Songs
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21838357 |
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| Authors | L A Smits (0000-0002-4790-7246, Leiden University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-20 |
| Publication date | 2021-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1947-6566 • E-ISSN: 2153-9650 |
| Publisher | The Pennsylvania State University Press (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5325/jmedirelicult.47.1.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W3124252442 |
| Language | EN |
Illustrations and annotation in the margins of manuscripts can offer unique insights into the medieval reading experience. This article explores how Douai, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 373, a manuscript containing Bernard of Clairvaux's Sermones super Cantica canticorum, produced and read in late medieval England, facilitates and reflects a performative mode of reading. While a movement from reading to bodily performance is suggested, this article argues that the opposite movement is also encouraged, as part of a nonlinear mode of reading in which images function both as a starting point and as a point of return for devotional practice
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Habitus · Linguistics · Literature · Performative utterance · Visual arts · Computer Science · Historical and Religious Studies of Rome · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · Mathematics · Medieval Literature and History · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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