LEADER 04728nam 2200697 450 001 9910829131303321 005 20230803222252.0 010 $a0-8014-7094-3 010 $a0-8014-7095-1 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801470950 035 $a(CKB)2560000000125889 035 $a(OCoLC)875894967 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10856312 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001182802 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11651462 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001182802 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11191795 035 $a(PQKB)10042743 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001510156 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3138584 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse34652 035 $a(DE-B1597)478373 035 $a(OCoLC)979627941 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801470950 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3138584 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10856312 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL683563 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000125889 100 $a20140419h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aHoly matter $echanging perceptions of the material world in late medieval Christianity /$fSara Ritchey 210 1$aIthaca, New York :$cCornell University Press,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (248 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-322-52281-2 311 $a0-8014-5253-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$t1. The Mirror of Holy Virginity --$t2. Viriditas and Virginitas --$t3. Clare of Assisi and the Tree of Crucifixion --$t4. The Franciscan Bough --$t5. An Estranged Wilderness --$tConclusion --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aA magnificent proliferation of new Christ-centered devotional practices-including affective meditation, imitative suffering, crusade, Eucharistic cults and miracles, passion drama, and liturgical performance-reveals profound changes in the Western Christian temperament of the twelfth century and beyond. This change has often been attributed by scholars to an increasing emphasis on God's embodiment in the incarnation and crucifixion of Christ. In Holy Matter, Sara Ritchey offers a fresh narrative explaining theological and devotional change by journeying beyond the human body to ask how religious men and women understood the effects of God's incarnation on the natural, material world. She finds a remarkable willingness on the part of medieval Christians to embrace the material world-its trees, flowers, vines, its worms and wolves-as a locus for divine encounter.Early signs that perceptions of the material world were shifting can be seen in reformed communities of religious women in the twelfth-century Rhineland. Here Ritchey finds that, in response to the constraints of gendered regulations and spiritual ideals, women created new identities as virgins who, like the mother of Christ, impelled the world's re-creation-their notion of the world's re-creation held that God created the world a second time when Christ was born. In this second act of creation God was seen to be present in the physical world, thus making matter holy. Ritchey then traces the diffusion of this new religious doctrine beyond the Rhineland, showing the profound impact it had on both women and men in professed religious life, especially Franciscans in Italy and Carthusians in England. Drawing on a wide range of sources including art, liturgy, prayer, poetry, meditative guides, and treatises of spiritual instruction, Holy Matter reveals an important transformation in late medieval devotional practice, a shift from metaphor to material, from gazing on images of a God made visible in the splendor of natural beauty to looking at the natural world itself, and finding there God's presence and promise of salvation. 606 $aNatural theology$xHistory of doctrines$yMiddle Ages, 600-1500 606 $aSpiritual life$xChristianity$xHistory of doctrines$yMiddle Ages, 600-1500 606 $aNature$xReligious aspects$xCatholic Church$xHistory of doctrines$yMiddle Ages, 600-1500 606 $aTheology, Doctrinal$xHistory$yMiddle Ages, 600-1500 615 0$aNatural theology$xHistory of doctrines 615 0$aSpiritual life$xChristianity$xHistory of doctrines 615 0$aNature$xReligious aspects$xCatholic Church$xHistory of doctrines 615 0$aTheology, Doctrinal$xHistory 676 $a231.709/02 700 $aRitchey$b Sara Margaret$01709850 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910829131303321 996 $aHoly matter$94099974 997 $aUNINA