William of Saint-Thierry and the Acoustics of Mystical Union
This article explores the ways William of Saint-Thierry performs sound writing, a writing about sound that invites readers to reinterrogate their relationship with the original text and explore its sound possibilities. As well, this article considers the very notion of exegetical writing to be an ex...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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[2020]
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Journal of medieval religious cultures
Year: 2020, Volume: 46, Issue: 2, Pages: 137-161 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CB Christian life; spirituality HB Old Testament KAE Church history 900-1300; high Middle Ages KCA Monasticism; religious orders NBC Doctrine of God NBE Anthropology |
| Further subjects: | B
sound studies
B vox Domini B William of Saint-Thierry B Exegesis B Cistercians |
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Volltext (Verlag) Volltext (doi) |
| Summary: | This article explores the ways William of Saint-Thierry performs sound writing, a writing about sound that invites readers to reinterrogate their relationship with the original text and explore its sound possibilities. As well, this article considers the very notion of exegetical writing to be an exploration of sensual principles. In the case of William of Saint-Thierry's Exposition on the Song of Songs, William takes the reader through a sonic journey of the body and soul in order to explore avenues of worship that are not scopic in their focus. William's approach to unio mystica with God is through the mouth and the ear - paralinguistic sound becomes the sound event in which union with God is realized. |
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| ISSN: | 2153-9650 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of medieval religious cultures
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.5325/jmedirelicult.46.2.0137 |