TY - GEN T1 - From the monastery to the city : Hildegard of Bingen and Francis of Assisi T2 - Past Light on Present Life: Theology, Ethics, and Spirituality A2 - Haight, Roger A2 - Pach, Alfred A2 - Kaminski, Amanda Avila LA - English PP - New York PB - Fordham University Press YR - 2023 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_on1402813401 AB - This volume brings together texts of the twelfth-century Hildegard of Bingen and the early-thir­teenth-century Francis of Assisi to represent religious spirituality after the Gregorian Reform and just prior to or simultaneous with the formation of universities in Western Europe. In an extraordinary way, Hildegard embodies monastic theology and spirituality and provides a contrast to the new thing that would be created with the study of theology in the new Aristotelian idiom of the universities. But equally in contrast to the Benedictine Hildegard, the thirteenth century witnessed a renewed enthusiasm for a more literal following of Christ in a life of penitence and poverty. This is a life of dependence, not on a superior and enclosed community but on the compassion of society at large. Francis would join this movement on his own terms, attract a following, and gradually formulate a spirituality that sent signals of the need to reform individual lives and the institutions of the Church. These two authors, then, are not joined here because of any shared similarity but to help illustrate two quite different spiritualities that animated the lively European twelfth and thirteenth centuries. OP - 181 CN - BV5080 .H35 2023 SN - 9781531506032 SN - 1531506038 SN - 9781531506025 SN - 153150602X SN - 9781531506018 KW - Mysticism : History : Middle Ages, 600-1500. KW - Mysticisme : Histoire : 600-1500 (Moyen Âge) KW - RELIGION / Spirituality. KW - Mysticism : Middle Ages KW - 600-1500 KW - Electronic books. KW - History ER -