ID - 119357028 TI - Meditation and prayer in the eleventh- and twelfth-century monastery : struggling towards God PY - 2023 SN - 9781802701074 9781641893121 1641893125 1641893125 1802701079 PB - Leeds Arc Humanities Press DB - UniCat KW - Spiritual life. KW - Prayer KW - Meditation. KW - Anglican monasticism and religious orders. KW - Meditation KW - Anglican monasticism and religious orders KW - Anglican Church. KW - Anglican church KW - History KW - Cistercians. KW - Benedictines. KW - Cistercians KW - Benedictines KW - Monasticism and religious orders, Anglican KW - Monasticism and religious orders KW - Worship KW - Prayers KW - Mental prayer KW - Prayer, Mental KW - Spiritual life KW - Contemplation KW - Life, Spiritual KW - Religious life KW - Spirituality KW - Bencések KW - Benedettini KW - Bénédictins KW - Beneditinos KW - Benedyktyni KW - O.S.B. KW - Ordem de São Bento KW - Order of Saint Benedict KW - Ordine di San Benedetto KW - Ordo Sancti Benedicti KW - OSB KW - Saint Benedict, Order of KW - Zisterzienser KW - White Monks KW - Bernardines (Cistercian) KW - Order of Cîteaux KW - Cîteaux, Order of KW - S. Ordo Cisterciensis KW - Sacer Ordo Cisterciensis KW - Ordo Cisterciensis KW - Cisztercita Szerzetes KW - Cisterciensi KW - Řád cisterciáků KW - Cisterciácký řád KW - Cisterciens KW - Trappists KW - Řád cisterciák KW - History of Emotions, Monasticism, Medieval Christianity, asceticism,. KW - Christian church history UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:119357028 AB - This book explores the dimensions of medieval monastic meditation, prayer, and contemplation in the heyday of Benedictine and Cistercian spiritual writing, the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Mancia aims to answer the following questions: What did extra-liturgical prayer and meditation look like for medieval monks and nuns in western medieval Europe? When, where, and how was it practised? Was there a set way to engage with monastic meditation, or were there a variety of medieval monastic meditative experiences in the eleventh and twelfth centuries? What did monks and nuns perceive as the limitations of monastic prayer and meditation, and how did they understand their own imperfections and failures to perform perfect devotion? What extra-textual tools - art, manuscripts, diagrams, spaces - did monks and nuns rely upon to stimulate their practices of meditation? What does monastic meditation reveal about the emotional lives of Benedictine and Cistercian monks and nuns in the high Middle Ages? And, finally, what does the monastic struggle to pursue a prayerful Christian life have to teach the secular world of the twenty-first century? ER -