Lectio Divina : The Medieval Experience of Reading (Cistercian Studies Series)

Robertson, Duncan

Liturgical Press（2011/12発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 272 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780879072384
• DDC分類 809.933820902

Full Description

During the Middle Ages the act of reading was experienced intensively in the monastic exercise of lectio divina 'the prayerful scrutiny of passages of Scripture, savored in meditation, memorized, recited, and rediscovered in the reader's own religious life. The rich literary tradition that arose from this culture includes theoretical writings from the Conferences of John Cassian (fifth century) through the twelfth-century treatises of Hugh of St. Victor and the Carthusian Guigo II; it also includes compilations, literary meditations, and scriptural commentary, notably on the Song of Songs. This study brings medievalist research together with modern theoretical reflections on the act of reading in a consolidation of historical scholarship, spirituality, and literary criticism.

Contents

Contents
List of Abbreviations   ix
Preface   xi
     Lectio Divina   xi
     In the Monastery   xiii
     Reading and Exegesis   xv
     Reading beyond Reading   xix
Chapter One: Scholarly Contexts: Ressourcement and Research   1
     Ressourcement   1
     Jean Leclercq   4
     Henri de Lubac   11
     Research and Practice   23
     Implications for Literary Theory   27
Chapter Two: The Interpretation of the Scriptures   38
     Letter and Spirit   38
     Origen's On First Principles   43
     Saint Augustine   50
     Saint Gregory the Great   57
Chapter Three: Reading and Meditation   72
     Classical Education   72
     The Conversion of Reading   76
     Cassian's Conferences   81
     Reading in the Monastery   88 
Chapter Four: Reading into Writing   104
     Chapters on Reading   107
     Liturgy and Private Prayer   120
     Carolingian Libelli Precum   125
Chapter Five: The Extension of Meditation   133
     John of Fécamp's Confessio theologica   133
     Saint Anselm of Canterbury's Orationes sive meditationes 145
Chapter Six: Reading the Song of Songs   156
     Origen's Commentary on the Song of Songs   158
     Origen's Homilies on the Song of Songs   163
     Gregory's Exposition on the Song of Songs  170
     Bernard of Clairvaux's Sermons on the Song of Songs   175
     Bernard's Reading Project   180
     Allegorical Analysis   184
     The Voice of the Bride   192
Chapter Seven: The Twelfth-Century Integration   203
     Meditatio and Meditationes   204
     Hugh of Saint-Victor   212
     Guigo II  224
Chapter Eight: The Book of Experience   231
Select Bibliography   234
Index   243