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The Artificiality of Christianity: Essays on the Poetics of Monasticism by M. B. Pranger

The Artificiality of Christianity: Essays on the Poetics of Monasticism

Figurae: Reading Medieval Culture

M. B. Pranger

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The writings of Anselm of Canterbury (1033-1109) reveal how the monastic mind, oscillating between hope and despair, was absorbed in technical exercises rather than in religious emotions. Early on monasticism had developed procedures for "ruminati...

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