devotio

You know that might be an alternate form of what would later become the devotio ritual in Roman history … you know where one sacrifices oneself for the good of the people …

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While it is generally argued that Christian piety of a later period (the devotio moderna) displayed tendencies toward extreme emotional outpourings, the texts discussed here suggest a similar phenomenon in twelfth - and thirteenth-century piety, centered on images of childhood and maternity.

A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005

In 336 (340) the consul P. Decius Mus sacrificed himself to the gods to ensure a victory (devotio).

427 (431) 2001

One type found expression in religious love (philia): the Béguines (Dutch and Flemish nuns who live in convents without taking vows), Brethren of the Free Spirit, The Friends of God (devotio moderna), Christian Brotherhoods (collegia pietatis),

Dictionary of the History of Ideas HERBERT W. SCHNEIDER 1968

It is, however, in the late Middle Ages and out of that northern mysticism of the devotio moderna taught by the Brethren of the Common Life at Deventer that two of the most important Christian treatments of the wisdom of the fool appear.

WISDOM OF THE FOOL WALTER KAISER 1968

As spokesman for the devotio moderna and biblical humanism, he distinguishes sharply between conflicting human opinions on God and the real certi - tude found in the philosophy of Christ.

IDEA OF GOD, 1400-1800 JAMES COLLINS 1968

Et inde est quod hujusmodi quandoque occasionaliter devotionem impediunt, et in simplicibus et mulieribus devotio abandat.

The Following of Christ. c. 1300-1361 1910

The historical difficulties of these accounts do not concern us now; by common consent of scholars the method and formula of the _devotio_ are authentic, and the rite must have had its origin in remote antiquity.

The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884

Technically, it must have been a sacrifice to Tellus and the Manes, like the _devotio_ of

The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884

Yet Tellus survived in such forms as that of the _devotio_; and even under the

The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884