SMC229H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Lectio Divina, Arianism, Cathedral School
15 Jul 2019
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Fragmentation and isolation of readership in monasteries actually allows reading to flourish because of the focus allowed for textual relationship also allowed texts to survive due to copy, and therefore so too were ancient practices [spiritual exercise]. Connection betw literary form and self-formation [how the text is explored, for what purpose to oneself] Lectio divina: combination of reading and prayer; intense point of contact with the text, from meditation to contemplation. Intensification of ancient practices focused on xtian doctrine, within communities designed to do so. Monasteries flourishing in europe and the british isles. Italy under the ostrogoths after the roman empire don"t last very long, superseded by the. Lombards [another germanic tribe of aryan christians] for about 200 years before assimilating into the italian pop. Campaigns to remove the lombards, which he does mostly, by isolating them to a smaller area. Military expansion of francia consolidation of orthodox christianity within his borders fostering of holiness were christianity was present intensifies.
