Imaginative immersion in the Cistercian Cloister
Line Cecilie Engh
This article uses analytical concepts from cognitive science to explore and deepen our understanding of how medieval monastics imagined themselves as characters within biblical narratives. It argues that Cistercian monks - in particular Bernard Clairvaux used techniques imaginative immersion enter blend into viewpoints events, thereby engaging the epistemically personally transformative experiences. The concludes this served build community enculture converts. Specifically, offers a close reading two Bernard's liturgical sermons, Sermon Two for Palm Sunday on Resurrection, show his sermons 1) traverse time space 2) viewpoints. Examples are also taken texts by John Cassian, Augustine, Gregory Great, William St. Thierry.&#x0D; Keywords: Clairvaux, blended viewpoint, deictic displacement, lectio divina, space. &#x0D; On cover:Monks singing Office decorated initial A[sperges me.]. Gradual Olivetan Master (Use Benedictines), illuminated manuscript parchment ca. 1430-1439. Italy, Monastero di Santa Maria Baggio near Milan, Ca 1400-1775.Beinecke Ms1184: olivetan Gradual. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book Manuscript Library, Yale University.
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