Meditatio : refashioning the self : theory and practice in late medieval and early modern intellectual culture / edited by Karl Enenkel and Walter Melion.

Rev. proceedings of a colloquium held in Apr. 2009 at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Types and functions of meditation in the transition from late medieval to early modern intellectual culture / Karl Enenkel and Walter S. Melion -- Meditative frames as reader's guidance in neo-Latin texts / Karl A.E. Enenkel -- Petrarch's "inner eye" in the Familiarium libri XXIV / Jan Papy -- The discovery of the dialogue in Dutch medieval literature: a discourse for meditation and disputation / Geert Warnar -- From meditation to reverie: Montaigne and Rousseau / Paul J. Smith -- Exscribo ergo sum. Self-reflexion and meditation in early modern German family books / Wolfgang Neuber -- Accomplishing one's essence: the role of meditation in the theology of Gabriel Biel -- Twelfth and sixteenth century renaissance discourses on meditation and contemplation: Lefevre d'Etaples' commentaries on Richard of Saint Victor's Trinity / Jacob Vance -- Die Meditation im spirituellen Reformprogramm der Devotio Moderna / Nikolaus Staubach -- Love tricks and flea-bitings: meditation, imagination and the pain of Christ in Joseph Hall and Richard Crawshaw / Jans Frans van Dijkhuizen -- Invisible contemplation: a paradox in the Spiritual exercises / Wietse de Boer -- Meditation in the service of Catholic orthodoxy: Peter Canisius' Notae evangelicae / Hilmar M. Pabel -- Dark images, clear words. Peter Paet's illustrated devotional literature from the Missio Hollandica / Feike Dietz -- He must increase, but I must decrease. On the spiritual and pictorial intertwining between the Johannesschüssel and the Vera icon (1200-1500) / Barbara Baert -- Cultivating piety, religious art and artists after the Council of Trent / Jan L. de Jong -- Exegetical duality as a meditative crux in Maarten van Heemskerck's Balaam and the angel in a panoramic landscape of 1554 / Walter S. Melion.