HIST 121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Spiritual Exercises Of Ignatius Of Loyola, Middle Ages, Gluttony
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Regeneration of religious monastic orders: monasticism-being a monk, saint theresa of avila (1515-1582) Was a mystic (believed in communion with god) Mysticism-danger of blurring lines between god and creation. She believed at the most, you could feel being one with. Writings described journey of soul to the level of god. What she saw when she had visionary experiences. She claimed to see the hands of god which were extremely bright. Claimed to see a bodily angel with a spear aflame with god. Purpose was to stop the spread of protestantism. Land of cockaigne: pieter breugel the elder 1567. One way to deal with hunger was splurging (overeating) Another way to deal with the fear is to not eat at all: one could atone for gluttony by serious fasting, nuns fasted often, which made them appear to exist on nothing. This fasting lead to hallucinations, which may have led to the.
