Real Men and Imaginary Women: Engelhard of Langheim Considers a Woman in Disguise

Newman, Martha G.

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“…86 Pranger 2007, 39-40, and1994, 303-313, has given an insightful analysis of the present sermon upon which I build and expand. 87 Bynum 1986;Engh 2014;Newman 2003;Krahmer 2000. 88 Mark (16:1) has three women: Mary Magdalene, Mary mother of James, Salome (sometimes known in later traditions as Mary Salome): hence the 'three Marys'.…”

Section: Creeping Inside the Text Blended Viewpoint And The Psalmic 'I'mentioning

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Imaginative immersion in the Cistercian Cloister

Engh

2019

Acta

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This article uses analytical concepts from cognitive science to explore and deepen our understanding of how medieval monastics imagined themselves as characters within biblical narratives. It argues that Cistercian monks - and in particular Bernard of Clairvaux - used techniques of imaginative immersion to enter and blend themselves into biblical viewpoints and events, thereby engaging the monks in epistemically and personally transformative experiences. The article concludes that this served to build community and to enculture monks and converts. Specifically, the article offers a close reading of two of Bernard's liturgical sermons, Sermon Two for Palm Sunday and Sermon Two on the Resurrection, to show how his sermons 1) traverse time and space and 2) blend viewpoints. Examples are also taken from texts by John Cassian, Augustine, Gregory the Great, and William of St. Thierry. Keywords: Bernard of Clairvaux, blended viewpoint, deictic displacement, lectio divina, liturgical time and space. On cover:Monks singing the Office and decorated initial A[sperges me.]. Gradual Olivetan Master (Use of the Olivetan Benedictines), illuminated manuscript on parchment ca. 1430-1439. Italy, Monastero di Santa Maria di Baggio near Milan, Ca 1400-1775.Beinecke Ms1184: The olivetan Gradual. Gradual. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

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Section: Creeping Inside the Text Blended Viewpoint And The Psalmic 'I'mentioning

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Imaginative immersion in the Cistercian Cloister

Engh

2019

Acta

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Saints’Livesas Efficacious Texts: Cistercian Monks, Religious Women, and Curative Reading, c. 1250–1330

Ritchey¹

2017

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Twelfth‐ and Thirteenth‐Century Cistercian Exempla Collections: Role, Diffusion, and Evolution

Mula

2010

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The second half of the 12th century witnessed the creation of a number of collections of exempla. The collectors were Cistercian monks, and the most productive of them were either in the monastery of Clairvaux in Burgundy or in one of the monasteries in Clairvaux’s filiation. This article discusses the origin, diffusion and evolution of the early collections (ca. 1160–1225), and analyzes the role of the exemplum inside the Cistercian Order, but also its place in the tradition of short narrative texts. The Cistercian exempla were meant for internal consumption, in order to create a common and shared memory for the members of the order. The success of the exempla was such that the preaching orders saw their potential and created their own collections as tools for preachers in the 13th century.

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Real Men and Imaginary Women: Engelhard of Langheim Considers a Woman in Disguise

Cited by 4 publications

References 9 publications

Imaginative immersion in the Cistercian Cloister

Imaginative immersion in the Cistercian Cloister

Saints’Livesas Efficacious Texts: Cistercian Monks, Religious Women, and Curative Reading, c. 1250–1330

Twelfth‐ and Thirteenth‐Century Cistercian Exempla Collections: Role, Diffusion, and Evolution

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