I deciphered some heavily abbreviated scholastic Latin pasted into a book binding and found Johannes Nider’s Praeceptorium divinae legis hiding in the flyleaves of a Thalbach devotional book.
Fragments really do have a place in intellectual history.
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Musicologists love antiphons. But a 16th-century prayerbook suggests the real center of gravity in the Divine Office was the psalms. The evidence? Counting drop caps.
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History is sometimes an act of accumulation: 397 folios. Hundreds of candles. Countless tiny details.
Today’s blog post discusses reading for details that earlier editors thought didn’t matter.
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Blog post: Threefold illumination, one determined nun: first despise yourself, then fall in love with God, then surrender everything. Medieval spiritual growth, step by step.
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Blog post on an early modern deathbed meditation from a Bregenz convent prayerbook, with context, analysis, and a provisional transcription/translation of the Seventh Word.
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@JourneysInFilm oooooooo looks cool! I hadn’t heard of Rebel Hearts but have put it on my watch list! #nuntastic!
My mom was friends with several nuns during those protest years; I suppose that’s one of the reasons I got interested in nuns’ experiences in general
@scholar_farmer And that reminds us that we've been meaning to ask you: Is Rebel Hearts on your radar?
Even though it's not medieval, it struck us as something you might enjoy, because it is definitely #nuntastic
Another blog post on that Thalbach Segen that I wrote about last week -- a "blessing" to be performed by the Sister during the mass. This gives the second half, and an assessment of how she works through spatial acts, equivalences, stacking of salvic things, and completeness articulated through binaries. She is creating whole-world protection for herself. Nifty!
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