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Meditation practice: The passion meditations of Henry Suso

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Title	Meditation practice: The passion meditations of Henry Suso
Period	07 / 2004 - 10 / 2008
Status	Completed
Research number	OND1300395
Data Supplier	Website Onderzoekschool Mediëvistiek

Abstract

The passion of Christ is probably the most important subject of meditation in the Low Countries of the fourteenth to the sixteenth century. Numerous passion-meditations figure in the more than 10.000 Middle Dutch religious manuscripts from this period. The Hundred articles of the passion of the Dominican friar Henry Suso is one of the most wide-spread texts on the subject: more than two hundred manuscripts survive with one of the more than ten different versions of this meditation-text. The text is intensively used in meditation. In meditation instructions from this period repeatedly attention is paid to meditation on the passion in general and sometimes to the Hundred articles in particular. In my research I study the text development of the different versions of Suso's Hundred articles against the background of existing meditation habits and meditation instructions. In this way we get a glimpse of the mutual influence of de meditation practise and the meditation text.

Abstract (NL)

Voor vijftiende-eeuwers was het lijden van Jezus zo belangrijk dat religieuzen er dagelijks over mediteerden. Hoe de verschillende religieuze groeperingen dit deden, wordt onderzocht aan de hand van de bewerkingen van de belangrijkste meditatietekst, de Honderd artikelen van Henricus Suso.

Related organisations

Secretariat	Netherlands Research School for Medieval Studies (RUG)
Collaboration	Department of Dutch Studies (UU)
Financier	Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO)

Related people

Project leader	Dr. J.J. van Aelst

Classification

A85200	Philosophy of life and religion
D33000	Theology and religious studies
D36200	Germanic language and literature studies