Resumen de Touching the Page and Touching the Heart: Manuscript Culture and Affective Devotion in Late Medieval Flemish Communities
This chapter shows how the materiality, imagined and actual, of devotional genres popular within the devotio moderna enabled the Jhesus Collacien sermon cycle to elicit an affective response reinforced by material context. Section 2.1 of the chapter demonstrates how the Jhesus Collacien depicts imagined touch using literary strategies popular within female devotio moderna communities. Section 2.2 of the chapter examines three late medieval compilations that include the Jhesus Collacien. I show how each promotes affective piety through imagined touch, and also elicits affective response through compilation. In this way, I show women’s participation in the devotional reading life of the devotio moderna, and argue for the affective valence of that material context in the broader devotional culture of the late medieval Low Countries.
