Table of Contents

Introduction: Memorare novissima tua
1: Monastic Meditation Transformed: The Spiritual Exercises of Bonaventure
2: Out of this World: Seeing the Afterlife in the Somme le Roi
3: Touching Eternity: The Practice of Death in Heinrich Seuse
4: Rewriting the Text of the Soul: In and Around the Devotio Moderna
5: Grace, Faith, Scripture, Spirit: Lutheran Transformations
Conclusion: Last Things and First Philosophy

About the Author

Mark Chinca studied at Cambridge and Kiel and has been Reader in Medieval and Early Modern German Literature at Cambridge since 2013. As well as essays on medieval literature, poetics, and devotional and pastoral writing, he has published two books on the Tristan romance of Gottfried von Strassburg, and is co-editor of the digital edition of the Kaiserchronik, one of the first verse chronicles of universal history in any European vernacular.

Reviews

Working in a rhetorical vein, Mark Chinca brings new precision to another aspect of this enduring, protean componentof faith.
*Barbara Newman, Northwestern University, STUDIES IN THE AGE OF CHAUCER*

Studies which range from the late medieval to the early modern are notoriously difficult to write. Chinca has succeeded admirably well, by producing a densely written yet eloquent and indeed elegant study which lives up to its great promise.
*Alastair Minnis, Medium Aevum *