Illuminating the Vitae patrum
Title | Illuminating the Vitae patrum PDF eBook |
Author | Denva Gallant |
Publisher | Penn State Press |
Total Pages | 294 |
Release | 2024-01-18 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0271098031 |
During the fourteenth century in Western Europe, there was a growing interest in imitating the practices of a group of hermits known as the Desert Fathers and Mothers. Laypeople and religious alike learned about their rituals not only through readings from the Vitae patrum (Lives of the Desert Fathers) and sermons but also through the images that brought their stories to life. In this volume, Denva Gallant examines the Morgan Library’s richly illustrated manuscript of the Vitae patrum (MS M.626), whose extraordinary artworks witness the rise of the eremitic ideal and its impact on the visual culture of late medieval Italy. Drawing upon scholarship on the history of psychology, eastern monasticism, gender, and hagiography, Gallant deepens our understanding of the centrality of the Desert Fathers and Mothers to late medieval piety. She provides important insights into the role of images in making the practices of the desert saints both compelling and accessible to fourteenth-century city dwellers, who were just beginning to cultivate the habit of private devotion on a wide scale. By focusing on the most extensively illuminated manuscript of the Vitae patrum to emerge during the trecento, this book sheds new light on the ways in which images communicated and reinforced modes of piety. It will be of interest to art historians, religious historians, and students focusing on this period in Italian history.
Illuminating the Vitae Patrum
Title | Illuminating the Vitae Patrum PDF eBook |
Author | Denva Gallant |
Publisher | Penn State University Press |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2024-04-30 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 9780271095639 |
Examines the most extensively illustrated codex of the Vitae patrum, The Lives of the Desert Fathers, to show how images made the practices of the desert saints compelling and accessible to fourteenth-century city dwellers who were just beginning to cultivate the habit of private devotion on a wide scale.
Vitae patrum
Title | Vitae patrum PDF eBook |
Author | Benjamin Baker |
Publisher | iUniverse |
Total Pages | 100 |
Release | 1968 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 0595290191 |
Wisdom on the Move: Late Antique Traditions in Multicultural Conversation
Title | Wisdom on the Move: Late Antique Traditions in Multicultural Conversation PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 279 |
Release | 2020-06-08 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9004430741 |
Wisdom on the Move explores religious wisdom traditions in Late Antiquity and beyond. It traces the movement of such texts across linguistic, religious and cultural borders. Particular attention is paid to the monastic Apophthegmata patrum.
Vitae patrum and other text(s)
Title | Vitae patrum and other text(s) PDF eBook |
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Total Pages | 370 |
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The Vitae patrum in Old and Middle English
Title | The Vitae patrum in Old and Middle English PDF eBook |
Author | Constance Lowengrund Rosenthal |
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Vitae patrum
Title | Vitae patrum PDF eBook |
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Release | 1971 |
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