Meditatio – Refashioning the Self

Karl A.E. Enenkel, Ph.D. (Leiden, 1990) is Professor of Medieval and Neo-Latin Literature at the University of Münster, Germany, and member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). He has published on international Humanism, the reception of Classical Antiquity, the history of ideas, literary genres and emblem studies. Walter S. Melion, Ph.D. (1988) in Art History, University of California, Berkeley, is Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Art History at Emory University in Atlanta. He has published extensively on Dutch and Flemish art and art theory of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. His books include Shaping the Netherlandish Canon: Karel van Mander's 'Schilder-Boeck' (University of Chicago, 1991) and The Meditative Art: Studies in the Northern Devotional Print (Saint Joseph's University, 2009).

Introduction

I. MEDITATIO AND REFASHIONING THE SELF IN LITERATURE, 1300-1600

Meditative Frames as Reader’s Guidance in Neo-Latin Texts
KARL ENENKEL

Petrarch’s “Inner Eye” in the Familiarium libri XXIV
JAN PAPY

The Discovery of the Dialogue in Medieval Dutch Literature. A Discourse for Meditation and Disputation
GEERT WARNAR

From Meditation to Reverie: Montaigne and Rousseau
PAUL SMITH

Exscribo ergo sum. Self-Reflexion and Meditiation in Early Modern German Family Books
WOLFGANG NEUBER


II. RELIGIOUS MEDITATION IN LATE MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN THEOLOGY

Accomplishing one’s Essence: the Role of Meditation in the Theology of Gabriel Biel
DIANA STANCIU

Twelfth and Sixteenth Century Discourses on Meditation and Contemplation. Lefevre d’Etaples’ Commentaries on Richard of Saint Victor’s De Trinitate
JACOB VANCE

Die Meditation im spirituellen Reformprogramm der Devotio Moderna
NIKOLAUS STAUBACH

Love Tricks and Flea-Bitings: Meditation, Imagination and the Pain of Christ in Joseph Hall and Richard Crawshaw
JAN FRANS VAN DIJKHUIZEN


III. EXERCITIA SPIRITUALIA: MEDITATION AND THE JESUITS

Invisible Contemplation: a Paradox in the Spiritual Exercises
WIETSE DE BOER

Meditation in the Service of Catholic Orthodoxy: Peter Canisius’ Notae Evangelicae
HILMAR PABEL

Dark Images, Clear Words. Pieter Paets’s Illustrated Devotional Literature from the Missio Hollandica
FEIKE DIETZ


IV. RELIGIOUS MEDITATION IN THE VISUAL ARTS, 13TH – 17TH CENTURY

He Must Increase, but I Must Decrease. On the Spiritual and Pictorial Intertwining between the Johannesschüssel and the Vera Icon (1200-1500)
BARBARA BAERT

Cultivating Piety. Religious Art and Artists After the Council of Trent
JAN L. DE JONG

Exegetical Duality as a Meditative Crux in Maarten van Heemskerck’s Balaam and the Angel in a Panoramic Landscape of 1554
WALTER S. MELION