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Document Details : Title: Meditation and Imagination in Geert Grote's De quattuor generibus meditabilium Author(s): FALQUE, Ingrid Journal: Ons Geestelijk Erf Volume: 94 Issue: 1-3 Date: 2024 Pages: 19-40 DOI: 10.2143/OGE.94.1.3293961 Abstract : The ways late medieval authors conceived the role of images in the meditative process has been a crucial question in recent scholarship. Indeed, meditative treatises often give crucial indications on how the uses of images in spiritual practices were informed by theories of the soul, but also on how these images produced and shaped the spiritual experience of their viewers. In other words, they inform us on the ‘experience of imagery’ in late medieval spirituality. This essay aims at contributing to this field by exploring the role of the imagination and its products as expounded by Geert Grote, in his De quattuor generibus meditabilium (‘On Four Classes of Subjects suitable for Meditation’). On the one hand, the essay starts with a brief presentation of meditative treatises, in order to show that Grote’s text can be understood as a kind of theorisation of meditation and its cognitive process. On the other, it focuses on the place Grote grants to the imagination and its products in this process, in an attempt to offer a renewed vision of this important text in the history of spirituality of the Low Countries. |
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