Staging Contemplation: Participatory Theology in Middle English Prose, Verse, and Drama

by Eleanor Johnson

Book Overview

What does it mean to contemplate? In the Middle Ages, more than merely thinking with intensity, it was a religious practice entailing utter receptiveness to the divine presence. Contemplation is widely considered by scholars today to have been the highest form of devotional prayer, a rarified means of experiencing God practiced only by the most devout of monks, nuns, and mystics.
Yet, in this groundbreaking new book, Eleanor Johnson argues instead...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022657217X
• ISBN13: 9780226572178
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"