Artes Liberales #: Emotional Monasticism

Affective Piety in the Eleventh-Century Monastery of John of FeCamp

Artes Liberales #: Emotional Monasticism
Lauren Mancia
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1 Jun 2021 UK
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9781526155917
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Medievalists have long taught that highly emotional Christian devotion, often called ' affective piety' , appeared in Europe after the twelfth century and was primarily practiced by communities of mendicants, lay people and women. Emotional monasticism challenges this view. The first study of affective piety in an eleventh-century monastic context, it traces the early history of affective devotion through the life and works of the earliest known writer of emotional prayers, John of Fecamp, abbot of the Norman monastery of Fecamp from 1028-78. Exposing the early medieval monastic roots of later medieval affective piety, this book casts a new light on the devotional life of monks in Europe before the twelfth century and redefines how medievalists should teach the history of Christianity.

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' In this exciting study of Fecamp, Lauren Mancia looks "under the hood" of an apparently ordinary eleventh-century Benedictine monastery. What she discovers of its rich and intense emotional life suggests new contours for the history of medieval "affective piety". ' Barbara H. Rosenwein, Professor Emerita, Loyola University Chicago' Emotional monasticism is a ground-breaking work of revisionist history that promises to have a profound influence on the study of Christian devotion in the Middle Ages. Scholars have tended to locate the devotional disposition that we call "affective piety" in movements of mendicant, lay and female spirituality of the later Middle Ages. In this lucid and well-argued book, Lauren Mancia convincingly makes the case that affective piety was already at play in the eleventh century in male Benedictine communities, particularly at the abbey of Fecamp in Normandy, where Abbot John fostered a devotional culture in his community with the aim of the emotional reform of his sinful brethren. Central to the reform was John' s lifework, a treatise known as the Confessio theologica. In her study, Mancia delineates with great skill the devotional program of John' s emotional reform through an analysis of his Confessio theologica, the influence of a specifically Benedictine culture on its formation, with special attention to John' s career and use of manuscripts, the implementation of his reforming agenda at Fecamp, the cultivation of these devotional principles by abbots active in the world and the legacy of the Confessio theologica beyond the monastic milieu of the eleventh century. This book will be of great interest not only to historians of medieval monasticism, but also to a much broader audience of readers interested in the history of premodern emotions and Christian piety. ' Scott G. Bruce, Professor of Medieval History, Fordham University -- .
Lauren Mancia is Assistant Professor of History at Brooklyn College, City University of New York
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ISBN-13: 9781526155917
Published: 1 Jun 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 216mm
Width: 138mm
Pages: 288

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