Pub Date : 2015-01-01DOI: 10.2143/OGE.86.3.3154601
J. V. D. Laan
This article discusses the early fifteenth century prayer book commissioned and owned by duchess Mary of Guelders. This book-which is now divided into two manuscripts, one in Berlin (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, MS Germ. qu. 42) and one in Vienna ((Osterreichische Nationalbibliothek, Cod. 1908) -has been known in (art historical) scholarship for more than 150 years. However, this research has been limited to examination of the place of the decoration of the book within the development of manuscript illumination of the Lower-Rhine region and the Netherlands more generally. This publication seeks to provide discussion of current arthistorical and textual aspects of the book and examine the prayer book in its context, which makes clear that the book was adapted to the specific tastes and preferences of the duchess of Guelders and that different cultural influences can be detected. Analysis of the book within this context opens up many lines of enquiry, which promise to reveal more insight into not only the artistic richness of the region, but also the devotional possibilities of a noble laywoman in the early fifteenth century.
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Pub Date : 2015-01-01DOI: 10.2143/OGE.86.4.3186082
Dinah Wouters
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Pub Date : 2015-01-01DOI: 10.2143/OGE.86.3.3154600
C. D. Morrée
Since medieval literature was mostly consumed by listening, its functioning was influenced by the performance’s sonic surroundings. This is particularly relevant for rethinking the circulations of texts within the Devotio Moderna communities of Sisters of the Common Life, that appear to have been governed by silence, but at the same time were situated within the rich urban sonic environment. Complementing traditional literary research, which relies on visual means of perception, this article explores some of the possibilities offered by sound-based research to oral literature, specifically song, in devout convents. A reconstruction – soundscape – is presented of the events that the Sisters of the Common Life would hear when fulfilling their obligation to visit the parish church on Sundays and feast days. It is demonstrated that sound played a larger part in convent life than is suggested by the Rule of Silence, indicating that the devout concept of silence should be understood as ‘managed sound’. The soundscape also offers a clearer insight into how the sisters’ aural experiences were influenced by their sonic environment. Furthermore, it offers a pathway to come nearer to the oral processes that are essential to the functioning of oral literature – especially song – in religious communities, as is tentatively illustrated by the Middle Dutch song codex Berlin, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preusischer Kulturbesitz, mgo 185.
由于中世纪文学主要是通过聆听来消费的,因此其功能受到表演声音环境的影响。这与重新思考共同生活姐妹的现代奉献社区内的文本循环特别相关,这些社区似乎受到沉默的支配,但同时又位于丰富的城市声音环境中。作为对依赖视觉感知手段的传统文学研究的补充,本文探讨了以声音为基础的研究为虔诚修道院的口头文学,特别是歌曲提供的一些可能性。一个重建-声景-被提出的事件,共同生活的姐妹会听到履行他们的义务时,参观教区教堂在星期日和节日。事实证明,声音在修道院生活中扮演的角色比沉默规则所建议的要大,这表明虔诚的沉默概念应该被理解为“管理声音”。音景也让我们更清楚地了解到姐妹们的听觉体验是如何受到声音环境的影响的。此外,它提供了更接近口头过程的途径,这对口头文学(尤其是歌曲)在宗教社区的功能至关重要,正如中世纪荷兰歌曲手札柏林(Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preusischer Kulturbesitz, mgo 185)所初步说明的那样。
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Pub Date : 2015-01-01DOI: 10.2143/OGE.85.4.3071292
K. Goudriaan
{"title":"De franciscanen, de leken en de drukpers","authors":"K. Goudriaan","doi":"10.2143/OGE.85.4.3071292","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2143/OGE.85.4.3071292","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39580,"journal":{"name":"Ons Geestelijk Erf","volume":"2015 1","pages":"230-266"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68171590","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2014-01-01DOI: 10.2143/OGE.86.3.3154602
Ingrid Falque
Depicting a Carthusian monk (identified with Jan Vos, prior of the charterhouses of Bruges and Utrecht) kneeling in prayer in front of the Virgin and Child, Petrus Christus’ Exeter Madonna perfectly illustrates how the structuration of pictorial space endows paintings that include devotional portraits with a dynamic dimension, which bears an essential role in the spiritual meaning and function of such images. The aim of this article is to show that by bringing together the worldly sphere below in the background and the sacred space in the foreground, where the Virgin welcomes the devotee, the Exeter Madonna can be understood as a visualisation of the spiritual ascent of Jan Vos. In order to do so, the visual structure of the painting is closely analysed, before being confronted to devotional texts dealing with the theme of the spiritual ascent (such as De spiritualibus ascensionibus of Gerard Zerbolt of Zutphen) that Jan Vos knew. Secondly, this devotional painting is replaced within its context, namely the charterhouses of Utrecht and Bruges and the Carthusian spirituality in order to demonstrate that together with books, such images played a crucial role in the meditative practices of Carthusian monks.
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Pub Date : 2012-09-01DOI: 10.2143/OGE.83.3.2182882
Barbara Zimbalist
{"title":"Quotation and imitation in Hadewijch's Visioenen the visionary and the vernacular Voice of Christ","authors":"Barbara Zimbalist","doi":"10.2143/OGE.83.3.2182882","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2143/OGE.83.3.2182882","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39580,"journal":{"name":"Ons Geestelijk Erf","volume":"83 1","pages":"216-242"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68171426","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2012-01-01DOI: 10.2143/OGE.83.3.2182881
J. Reynaert
{"title":"Het 39e van de Limburgse sermoenen, de Boengaert van der geesteleker herten en Hadewijchs Brieven","authors":"J. Reynaert","doi":"10.2143/OGE.83.3.2182881","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2143/OGE.83.3.2182881","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39580,"journal":{"name":"Ons Geestelijk Erf","volume":"83 1","pages":"193-215"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68171685","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2012-01-01DOI: 10.2143/OGE.83.4.2959686
R. Faesen, J. Arblaster
{"title":"Commune à tous par largesse de pure charité: Common Love in Beatrice of Nazareth and Marguerite Porete","authors":"R. Faesen, J. Arblaster","doi":"10.2143/OGE.83.4.2959686","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2143/OGE.83.4.2959686","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39580,"journal":{"name":"Ons Geestelijk Erf","volume":"83 1","pages":"297-323"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68171480","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2012-01-01DOI: 10.2143/OGE.83.1.2152735
Y. Desplenter
{"title":"De geschiedenis van de Middelnederlandse psaltervertalingen herzien: de middeleeuwse overzettingen van het psalmboek uit het zuiden van het Nederlandse taalgebied (ca. 1300 - ca. 1550)","authors":"Y. Desplenter","doi":"10.2143/OGE.83.1.2152735","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2143/OGE.83.1.2152735","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39580,"journal":{"name":"Ons Geestelijk Erf","volume":"83 1","pages":"3-56"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68171288","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2010-03-31DOI: 10.2143/OGE.81.1.2049256
J.G.M. Kienhorst
{"title":"Mystiek op schrift in vrouwenkloosters uit de traditie van de Moderne Devotie. Een oriënterende vergelijking van drie collecties: Arnhem, Geldern en Maaseik","authors":"J.G.M. Kienhorst","doi":"10.2143/OGE.81.1.2049256","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2143/OGE.81.1.2049256","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39580,"journal":{"name":"Ons Geestelijk Erf","volume":"81 1","pages":"38-63"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68171645","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}