The Resource Understanding the medieval meditative ascent : Augustine, Anselm, Boethius, & Dante, Robert McMahon
Understanding the medieval meditative ascent : Augustine, Anselm, Boethius, & Dante, Robert McMahon
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- Extent
- 1 online resource (xiv, 284 pages)
- Contents
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- The meditative ascent : paradigm and principles : ascent and return
- The unity of meditative structure and texture in Augustine's Confessions
- A moving viewpoint : Augustine's meditative philosophy in the Confessions
- Meditative movement in Anselm's Proslogion
- Recollecting oneself : meditative movement in The consolation of philosophy
- Isbn
- 9780813216287
- Label
- Understanding the medieval meditative ascent : Augustine, Anselm, Boethius, & Dante
- Title
- Understanding the medieval meditative ascent
- Title remainder
- Augustine, Anselm, Boethius, & Dante
- Statement of responsibility
- Robert McMahon
- Subject
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- Anselm (von Canterbury)
- Anselm, Saint, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1033-1109
- Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430
- Augustinus, Aurelius
- Boethius, -524
- Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus
- Confessiones (Augustine, of Hippo, Saint)
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Dante (Alighieri)
- Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321
- Devotional literature
- Devotional literature -- History and criticism
- Divina commedia (Dante Alighieri)
- Electronic books
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- Medieval
- Meditatie
- Proslogion (Anselm, Saint, Archbishop of Canterbury)
- RELIGION -- Christian Life | General
- De consolatione philosophiae (Boethius)
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Annotation.
- Cataloging source
- E7B
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1950-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- McMahon, Robert
- Dewey number
- 248
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- BV4818
- LC item number
- .M36 2006eb
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Augustine
- Anselm
- Boethius
- Dante Alighieri
- Devotional literature
- Augustinus, Aurelius
- Anselm (von Canterbury)
- Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus
- Dante (Alighieri)
- RELIGION
- LITERARY CRITICISM
- Devotional literature
- Meditatie
- Summary expansion
- The Confessions, Proslogion, and Consolation of Philosophy, like the Divine Comedy, all enact Platonist ascents. Each has a pilgrim figure, guided dialogically on a journey of understanding. Each rises to progressively higher levels of understanding and culminates in a supreme intellectual vision. The higher levels contain and surpass earlier understandings and thereby reconfigure them, but implicitly, for the questing pilgrim rarely stops to reflect on the stages of his ascent. Augustine's conclusions about time in book 11, for example, embrace memory as "time past," but he does not reconsider his account of memory in book 10 from this new perspective. He left these for his reader's meditation, as a spiritual exercise. In this way, a Platonist ascent generates implied meditative meanings, which scholars have explored only in part. Each work calls us to read forward, on its journey of understanding, and to meditate backwards on the stages of the ascent and the relations between them. Augustine, Anselm, Boethius, and Dante wrote for readers experienced in meditating on the Bible, adept at exploring relations between far distant passages. They designed these works as spiritual exercises for the same kind of reading and meditation. Understanding the Medieval Meditative Ascent uses literary analysis to discover new philosophical meanings in these works. Clearly written in nontechnical language, its account of their literary structures and of the hidden meanings they generate will inform nonspecialist and specialist alike
- Label
- Understanding the medieval meditative ascent : Augustine, Anselm, Boethius, & Dante, Robert McMahon
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-280) and index
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- online resource
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- multicolored
- Content category
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- txt
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- Contents
- The meditative ascent : paradigm and principles : ascent and return -- The unity of meditative structure and texture in Augustine's Confessions -- A moving viewpoint : Augustine's meditative philosophy in the Confessions -- Meditative movement in Anselm's Proslogion -- Recollecting oneself : meditative movement in The consolation of philosophy
- Control code
- 646786282
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xiv, 284 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780813216287
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
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- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctt25hz5p
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)646786282
- Label
- Understanding the medieval meditative ascent : Augustine, Anselm, Boethius, & Dante, Robert McMahon
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-280) and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- The meditative ascent : paradigm and principles : ascent and return -- The unity of meditative structure and texture in Augustine's Confessions -- A moving viewpoint : Augustine's meditative philosophy in the Confessions -- Meditative movement in Anselm's Proslogion -- Recollecting oneself : meditative movement in The consolation of philosophy
- Control code
- 646786282
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xiv, 284 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780813216287
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- c
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctt25hz5p
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)646786282
Subject
- Anselm (von Canterbury)
- Anselm, Saint, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1033-1109
- Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430
- Augustinus, Aurelius
- Boethius, -524
- Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus
- Confessiones (Augustine, of Hippo, Saint)
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Dante (Alighieri)
- Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321
- Devotional literature
- Devotional literature -- History and criticism
- Divina commedia (Dante Alighieri)
- Electronic books
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- Medieval
- Meditatie
- Proslogion (Anselm, Saint, Archbishop of Canterbury)
- RELIGION -- Christian Life | General
- De consolatione philosophiae (Boethius)
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