The Secret Chamber of Her Mind: Interpreting Inner Experience in theVitaof Beatrice of Nazareth
Exemplaria July 1, 2011 Jessica Barr 1 citation
The author of the thirteenth-century Vita Beatricis seeks to control his audience's response to his text in two ways: first, by articulating within the text a model of a receptive and credulous readership that stands in contrast to Beatrice's misguided and misinterpreting contemporaries; and second, by arguing that Beatrice herself contains a secret, inner "text" of spiritual experiences that...