Staging contemplation : participatory theology in Middle English prose, verse, and drama / Eleanor Johnson.
What does it mean to contemplate? In the Middle Ages, more than merely thinking with intensity, it was a religious practice entailing utter receptiveness to the divine presence. Contemplation is widely considered by scholars today to have been the highest form of devotional prayer, a rarified means...
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