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An important collection of essays focused how the climactic episode of Christian scripture and apocrypha, the life of Christ, was repeatedly adapted for a variety of audiences and devotional uses in the Middle Ages.Christ’s life, as related through the Gospel narratives and early Apocrypha, was subject to a riot of literary-devotional adaptation in the medieval period. This collection provides a series of groundbreaking studies centring on the devotional and cultural significance of Christianity’s pivotal story during the Middle Ages.The collection represents an important milestone in terms of mapping the meditative modes of piety that characterize a number of Christological traditions, including the Meditationes vitae Christi and the numerous versions it spawned in both Latin and the vernacular. A number of chapters in the volume track how and why meditative piety grew in popularity to become a mode of spiritual activity advised not only to recluses and cenobites as in the writings of Aelred of Rievaulx, but also reached out to diverse lay audiences through the pastoral regimens prescribed by devotional authors such as the Carthusian prior Nicholas Love in England and the Parisian theologian and chancellor of the University of Paris, Jean Gerson. Through exploring these texts from a variety of perspectives — theoretical, codicological, theological — and through tracing their complex lines of dissemination in ideological and material terms, this collection promises to be invaluable to students and scholars of medieval religious and literary culture.

Christian church history --- Christian special devotions --- anno 1200-1499 --- Europe --- United Kingdom --- Christian literature, English (Middle) --- Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern) --- Devotional literature, English (Middle) --- Devotional literature, Latin (Medieval and modern) --- Christian life --- Religion and culture --- Littérature chrétienne anglaise (moyen anglais) --- Littérature chrétienne latine médiévale et moderne --- Littérature de dévotion anglaise (moyen anglais) --- Littérature de dévotion latine (médiévale et moderne) --- Vie chrétienne --- Religion et culture --- History and criticism. --- History --- Histoire et critique --- Histoire --- Jesus Christ --- Biography --- Early works to 1800. --- Devotional literature. --- Littérature chrétienne anglaise (moyen anglais) --- Littérature chrétienne latine médiévale et moderne --- Littérature de dévotion anglaise (moyen anglais) --- Littérature de dévotion latine (médiévale et moderne) --- Vie chrétienne --- Early works to 1800 --- Devotional literature --- Christian literature [English ] (Middle) --- History and criticism --- Christian literature [Latin ] (Medieval and modern) --- Devotional literature [English ] (Middle) --- Devotional literature [Latin ] (Medieval and Modern) --- Middle Ages, 600-1500 --- England --- To 1500 --- Middle Ages, 500-1500 --- Spiritualité --- Moyen Age --- Iesus Christus D.N. --- Méditations