The devout belief of the imagination
Subtitle: the Paris Meditationes vitae Christi and female Franciscan spirituality in trecento Italy
By: Holly Flora
Series: Disciplina monastica -- 6
Publisher: Brepols
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Turnhout
Language: eng
Number of pages: 305
ISBN-13: 9782503528199
Notes: "This book seeks a new approach to the [Mediationes vitae Christi] via an in-depth examination of its most important illustrated manuscript, Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Ms. ital. 115"--P. 18.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-297) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: "You must begin from this" : the Meditationes vitae Christi, the history of art, and the study of female spirituality; title: "Moved by the great sweetness of love" : imaging the Meditationes vitae Christi; title: "Illuminated by divine virtue" : interaction, emulation, and emotion; title: "Pause here for awhile first" : imagined pilgrimage, holy feasts, and moral models; title: "Love poverty with your heart" : picturing Franciscan spirituality.