LEADER 04262nam 22007455 450 001 9910149580103321 005 20211005220531.0 010 $a0-8232-7214-1 024 7 $a10.1515/9780823272143 035 $a(CKB)3710000000934843 035 $a(DE-B1597)555086 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780823272143 035 $a(OCoLC)1030818003 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4732309 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000934843 100 $a20200723h20162017 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Weight of Love $eAffect, Ecstasy, and Union in the Theology of Bonaventure /$fRobert Glenn Davis 210 1$aNew York, NY : $cFordham University Press, $d[2016] 210 4$dİ2017 215 $a1 online resource (208 p.) 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tIntroduction: Weighing Affect in Medieval Christian Devotion -- $tChapter 1. The Seraphic Doctrine: Love and Knowledge in the Dionysian Hierarchy -- $tChapter 2. Affect, Cognition, and the Natural Motion of the Will -- $tChapter 3. Elemental Motion and the Force of Union -- $tChapter 4. Hierarchy and Excess in the Itinerarium mentis in Deum -- $tChapter 5. The Exemplary Bodies of the Legenda Maior -- $tConclusion. A Corpus, in Sum -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aSupplementing theological interpretation with historical, literary, and philosophical perspectives, The Weight of Love analyzes the nature and role of affectivity in medieval Christian devotion through an original interpretation of the writings of the Franciscan theologian Bonaventure. It intervenes in two crucial developments in medieval Christian thought and practice: the renewal of interest in the corpus of Dionysius the Areopagite in thirteenth-century Paris and the proliferation of new forms of affective meditation focused on the passion of Christ in the later Middle Ages. Through the exemplary life and death of Francis of Assisi, Robert Glenn Davis examines how Bonaventure traces a mystical itinerary culminating in the meditant?s full participation in Christ?s crucifixion. For Bonaventure, Davis asserts, this death represents the becoming-body of the soul, the consummation and transformation of desire into the crucified body of Christ.In conversation with the contemporary historiography of emotions and critical theories of affect, The Weight of Love contributes to scholarship on medieval devotional literature by urging and offering a more sustained engagement with the theological and philosophical elaborations of affectus. It also contributes to debates around the ?affective turn? in the humanities by placing it within this important historical context, challenging modern categories of affect and emotion. 606 $aLove$xReligious aspects$xChristianity$xHistory of doctrines$yMiddle Ages, 600-1500 606 $aLove 606 $aBonaventure 606 $aDionysius the Areopagite 606 $aFrancis of Assisi 606 $aaffect and emotion 606 $aaffective meditation 606 $aaffective turn 606 $amedieval devotional literature 606 $amysticism 606 $aRELIGION / Theology$2bisacsh 610 $aBonaventure. 610 $aDionysius the Areopagite. 610 $aFrancis of Assisi. 610 $aaffect and emotion. 610 $aaffective meditation. 610 $aaffective turn. 610 $amedieval devotional literature. 610 $amysticism. 615 0$aLove$xReligious aspects$xChristianity$xHistory of doctrines 615 0$aLove. 615 4$aBonaventure. 615 4$aDionysius the Areopagite. 615 4$aFrancis of Assisi. 615 4$aaffect and emotion. 615 4$aaffective meditation. 615 4$aaffective turn. 615 4$amedieval devotional literature. 615 4$amysticism. 615 7$aRELIGION / Theology. 676 $a241/.4 700 $aDavis$b Robert Glenn, $4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0952065 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910149580103321 996 $aThe weight of love$92152414 997 $aUNINA