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Illuminating The Vitae patrum: Lives of Desert Saints Fourteenth-Century Italy
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Illuminating The Vitae patrum: Lives of Desert Saints Fourteenth-Century Italy
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In this volume, Denva Gallant examines the Morgan Library’s richly illustrated manuscript of the
(MS M.626), whose extraordinary artworks witness the rise of the eremitic ideal and its impact on the visual culture of late medieval Italy. Drawing upon scholarship on the history of psychology, eastern monasticism, gender, and hagiography, Gallant deepens our understanding of the centrality of the Desert Fathers and Mothers to late medieval piety. She provides important insights into the role of images in making the practices of the desert saints both compelling and accessible to fourteenth-century city dwellers, who were just beginning to cultivate the habit of private devotion on a wide scale.
By focusing on the most extensively illuminated manuscript of the
to emerge during the trecento, this book sheds new light on the ways in which images communicated and reinforced modes of piety. It will be of interest to art historians, religious historians, and students focusing on this period in Italian history.