{"product_id":"the-weight-of-love-9780823272129","title":"The Weight of Love","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA study of the role of affect in the mystical theology and Passion meditations of the thirteenth-century Franciscan theologian Bonaventure of Bagnoregio\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The Weight of Love is an extremely erudite and well-researched book that illustrates the complexity of what scholars call 'affective' devotion in the high Middle Ages by means of detailed analyses of works of one of its most celebrated writers, the thirteenth-century Franciscan theologian Giovanni di Fidanza, otherwise known as St. Bonaventure. This innovative book responds to contemporary scholarship on mysticism, affective devotion, and medieval theology and natural philosophy.\" -- -Patricia Dailey Columbia University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements       Introduction       Chapter 1: The Seraphic Doctrine: Love and Knowledge in the Dionysian Hierarchy.       Chapter 2: Affect, Cognition, and the Natural Motion of the Will       Chapter 3: Elemental Motion and the Force of UnionELEL..       Chapter 4: Hierarchy and Excess in the Itinerarium mentis in Deum       Chapter 5: The Exemplary Bodies of the Legenda Maior       Conclusion       Bibliography","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406145495383,"sku":"9780823272129","price":81.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780823272129.jpg?v=1730494682","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-weight-of-love-9780823272129","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}