TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ritchey,Sara Margaret
TI  - Holy matter: changing perceptions of the material world in late medieval Christianity 
SN  - 9780801470950
AV  - BX1795 .H659 2014
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Ithaca
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - Nature
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Catholic Church
KW  - History of doctrines
KW  - Middle Ages, 600-1500
KW  - Spiritual life
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Natural theology
KW  - Theology, Doctrinal
KW  - History
KW  - Nature - Religious aspects - Catholic Church - History of doctrines - Middle Ages, 600-1500
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; The mirror of holy virginity --; Virginitas and viriditas --; Clare of Assisi and the ligna of crucifixion --; The Franciscan bough --; An estranged wilderness; 2; b
N2  - "A magnificent proliferation of new Christ-centered devotional practices--including affective meditation, imitative suffering, crusade, Eucharistic cults and miracles, passion drama, and liturgical performance--reveals profound changes in the Western Christian temperament of the twelfth century and beyond. This change has often been attributed by scholars to an increasing emphasis on God's embodiment in the incarnation and crucifixion of Christ. In Holy Matter, Sara Ritchey offers a fresh narrative explaining theological and devotional change by journeying beyond the human body to ask how religious men and women understood the effects of God's incarnation on the natural, material world. She finds a remarkable willingness on the part of medieval Christians to embrace the material world--its trees, flowers, vines, its worms and wolves--as a locus for divine encounter"--
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