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The Origins of the Meditationes vitae Christi

It is widely agreed that the work now known as the pseudo-Bonaventuran Meditationes vitae Christi (MVC) was the single most influential devotional text written in the later Middle Ages. Composed in Tuscany in the middle of the fourteenth century (between about 1336 and 1364), it was rapidly disseminated inLatin and translated into all of the major European vernaculars, including English, French, German, Irish, Spanish, Catalan, and Swedish; well over two hundred manuscripts survive.1 With its gentle invitations to the reader to enter into imagined and em-