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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. --Publisher description.

Book history --- Comparative religion --- anno 500-1499 --- Books and reading --- Meditation --- Livres et lecture --- Méditation --- Religious aspects --- Christianity --- History --- History of doctrines --- Aspect religieux --- Christianisme --- Histoire --- Histoire des doctrines --- Bible --- Devotional use --- Reading --- History. --- Devotional use. --- Reading. --- -Bible --- 028 --- 242 --- 248.1*6 --- Mental prayer --- Prayer, Mental --- Prayer --- Spiritual life --- Contemplation --- Appraisal of books --- Books --- Choice of books --- Evaluation of literature --- Literature --- Reading, Choice of --- Reading and books --- Reading habits --- Reading public --- Reading interests --- Reading promotion --- -Christianity --- -History --- -Devotional use --- -History. --- Lezen. Lectuur --- Meditatie. Contemplatie --- Bijbelse meditatie --- Appraisal --- Evaluation --- 248.1*6 Bijbelse meditatie --- 028 Lezen. Lectuur --- Méditation --- Christianity&delete& --- Biblia --- Books and reading - Religious aspects - Christianity - History - To 1500 --- Meditation - Christianity - History