Phlegmatic Landscapes: Perceptions of Wetlands, Acedia , and Complexion Theory in Selected Later Medieval Allegorical Pilgrim Narratives

Understanding medieval landscapes as sacred sites reveals underlying tensions in medieval thought between the placement of human beings outside of nature and a view that humans are in, and part of, the natural world. This article examines the relationship of landscape and human experience in late me...

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Main Author: Whitney, Elspeth (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Equinox Publ. 2019
In: Journal for the study of religion, nature and culture
Year: 2019, Volume: 13, Issue: 2, Pages: 157-180
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Middle Ages / Pilgrimage / Travel description / Landscape assessment / Marshes / Character presentation / Human being / Type
RelBib Classification:AG Religious life; material religion
CB Christian life; spirituality
CD Christianity and Culture
KAC Church history 500-1500; Middle Ages
NBD Doctrine of Creation
Further subjects:B Accidie
B pilgrim narratives
B wetlands
B Landscapes
B Middle Ages
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