LEADER 04560nam 22006494a 450 001 9910812443303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-281-95919-7 010 $a9786611959197 010 $a0-226-07134-0 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226071343 035 $a(CKB)1000000000579775 035 $a(EBL)408429 035 $a(OCoLC)476229022 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000233022 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11191033 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000233022 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10219409 035 $a(PQKB)11235155 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000122019 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC408429 035 $a(DE-B1597)523390 035 $a(OCoLC)1135576079 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226071343 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL408429 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10265913 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL195919 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000579775 100 $a20070409d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aReading in the wilderness$b[electronic resource] $eprivate devotion and public performance in late medieval England /$fJessica Brantley 210 $aChicago $cUniversity of Chicago Press$d2007 215 $a1 online resource (491 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-226-07132-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [395]-448) and indexes. 327 $aIntroduction: The performance of reading -- "Silence visible" : Carthusian devotional reading and meditative practice -- Backgrounds : the Carthusian Order -- Carthusians and books -- Carthusians and art -- The shapes of eremitic reading in the desert of religion : the desert of religion as imagetext -- "ALS wildernes is wroght ?þis boke" : formats of monastic books -- Reading spiritual community in the wilderness -- Lyric imaginings and painted prayers -- The eremitic lyric and Richard Rolle -- Imagining the Carthusian reader -- Liturgical pageantry in private spaces -- Reading the liturgy : two models -- Performing the holy name -- Performing the canonical hours -- Performing the seven sacraments -- Envisioning dialogue in performance -- "In maner of a dyaloge it wente" -- Allegorical dialogues : the pylgremage of the soul -- Mystical dialogues : the treatise of the seven points -- Dramatizing the cell : theatrical performances in monastic reading -- Dramatic texts, lyric voices, and private readers -- Theatrical reading in additional 37049 -- Monastic closet drama -- Conclusion: Reading performances. 330 $aJust as twenty-first-century technologies like blogs and wikis have transformed the once private act of reading into a public enterprise, devotional reading experiences in the Middle Ages were dependent upon an oscillation between the solitary and the communal. In Reading in the Wilderness, Jessica Brantley uses tools from both literary criticism and art history to illuminate Additional MS 37049, an illustrated Carthusian miscellany housed in the British Library. This revealing artifact, Brantley argues, closes the gap between group spectatorship and private study in late medieval England. Drawing on the work of W. J. T. Mitchell, Michael Camille, and others working at the image-text crossroads, Reading in the Wilderness addresses the manuscript's texts and illustrations to examine connections between reading and performance within the solitary monk's cell and also outside. Brantley reimagines the medieval codex as a site where the meanings of images and words are performed, both publicly and privately, in the act of reading. 606 $aSpiritual life$xChristianity$xHistory of doctrines$yMiddle Ages, 600-1500 606 $aDevotion 607 $aEngland$xReligion 610 $areading, devotional, faith, piety, religion, christianity, prayer, worship, meditation, contemplation, middle ages, additional ms 37049, spectatorship, communal, community, carthusian miscellany, british library, medieval, england, monks, catholicism, michael camille, wjt mitchell, solitude, isolation, monastery, books, art, history, pageantry, liturgy, closet drama, mysticism, theater, performance, nonfiction. 615 0$aSpiritual life$xChristianity$xHistory of doctrines 615 0$aDevotion. 676 $a282/.4209024 700 $aBrantley$b Jessica$01661569 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910812443303321 996 $aReading in the wilderness$94017577 997 $aUNINA