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Abstract
By means of a close reading of a single prayer on the Passion of Christ from the 14th century ‘Engelberg Prayerbook,’ this article analyzes three characteristic effects of reading medieval written prayers: first, the devotee assumes the role of the I constructed by the text. Secondly, this leads to an effect of immersion into a literarily constructed, imagined environment. Finally, these effects of reading aim at being surpassed by an immediacy of a divine answer that transcends the aesthetic and semantic effects of the literary medium.
Published Online: 2019-11-28
Published in Print: 2019-11-13
© 2019 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston
