Through the lens of sensorial experience, Erika Lauren Lindgren
explores the spirituality of monastic women as reflected in their
writings, liturgical texts, artwork, architecture, and archival
documents. Specifically, she focuses on the Dominican nuns and
lay-sisters of southern Germany in the thirteenth and early
fourteenth centuries, particularly the way in which these women
controlled and interpreted their surroundings and incorporated them
into their spiritual and devotional practices.
Lindgren divides the monastic environment into four areas: the
spatial environment, in which she considers the physical as well as
spiritual requirements of the monastic community and the use of
precinct space; the visual environment, in which she looks at the
function of visual material in daily spirituality and the meanings
given to these images; the acoustical environment and the roles of
silence and sound in communal and private devotional practices; and
the textual environment, in which Lindgren addresses the
intersection between the visual, the acoustical, and women's
utilization of texts. Brilliantly argued and intellectually rich,
Lindgren's study is a remarkable examination of the connections
between the spirituality of monastic women and the physical and
sensual environment of the medieval monastery.
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