Resumen de Sacralising Perception: Rosary-Devotion and Tactile Experience of the Divine in Late Medieval Denmark
This chapter aims to give a detailed account of how the rosary-prayer, as a multi-sensory form of devotion, worked at meditation level in late medieval Denmark. This is based on the surviving evidence: two rosary-prayers found in late medieval prayer books, a poetic literary work on the rosary and the prayer-beads by the priest and founder of the Brotherhood of the Holy Rosary in Denmark, Master Michael, as well as iconographic and material sources such as wall paintings and preserved medieval prayer-beads. This chapter seeks to explore how the multi-sensory act of praying the rosary aimed to align the inner and outer senses in order to create a place and a moment where God could be experienced. Ultimately, the chapter proposes that the exercise of praying the rosary served as a tool that shaped the perception of the world and was thus a way for medieval devotees to sacralise their perceived reality.
