Meditations on the Life of ChristThe Short Italian Text\nAuthor(s): Sarah McNamer\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Notre Dame Press, United States\nImprint: University of Notre Dame Press\nISBN-13: 9780268102869, 978-0268102869\nSynopsis\nA critical edition of a never-before-published Italian text likely to be the original version of the influential masterpiece, The Meditations on the Life of Christ.\n\nMeditations on the Life of Christ was the most popular and influential devotional work of the later Middle Ages. With its lively dialogue and narrative realism, its poignant and moving depictions of the Nativity and Passion, and its direct appeals to the reader to feel love and compassion, the Meditations had a major impact on devotional practices, religious art, meditative literature, vernacular drama, and the cultivation of affective experience.\n\nThis volume is a critical edition, with English translation and commentary, of the Italian text that McNamer argues is likel.