The Mystical Tradition and the Carthusians
Author: James Hogg
Publisher:
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13:
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The Medieval Mystical Tradition in England
Author: Marion Glasscoe
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780859912365
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThese papers are the proceedings of the fourth international Exeter Symposium. They promote enquiry into, and understanding of, the medieval mystics and the cultural context to which they belong. Here, historians, literary critics, theologians, philosophers and bibliographical scholars explore ways in which the contemplative tradition was mediated and perceived in the very early and very late medieval period, and ask fundamental questions about the nature of contemporary understanding of this subject. CONTRIBUTORS: GEORGE R. KEISER, SUE ELLEN HOLBROOK, WILLIAM F. POLLARD, JAMES HOGG, SANDRA MCENTIRE, ANNE SAVAGE, PETER DINZELBACHER, NICHOLAS WATSON, PETER MOORE, ROBERT K. FORMAN
The Medieval Mystical Tradition in England
Author: Edward Alexander Jones
Publisher: DS Brewer
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9781843840077
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe regular meetings resumed, here with particular focus on Julian of Norwich, and Syon Abbey and the Bridgettines.
The Mystical Tradition and the Carthusians
Author: James Hogg
Publisher:
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 140
ISBN-13: 9783705203969
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFifteenth-Century Carthusian Reform: The World of Nicholas Kempf
Author: Dennis D. Martin
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-11
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9004477918
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFifteenth-Century Carthusian Reform argues that monastic theology offers a medieval Catholic paradigm distinct from the scholastic theology that has been the conventional source for medieval-oriented interpretations of Renaissance and Reformation. It is based on thorough study of the manuscript record. Nicholas Kempf (ca. 1415-1497) taught at the University of Vienna before becoming the head of Carthusian monasteries in rural Austria and Slovenia. Faced with calls for reform in church and society, he placed his confidence in the patristic Christian idea of reform: the reform of the image of God in the human person. This contemplative monastic idea of reform depended on authoritative structures, especially the monastic rule and rational -- yet divinely inspired -- discernment by a spiritual director. What seemed like simpleminded submission to monastic structures was actually a way to avoid relying on human effort for salvation. By returning to one's true self (the image of God), one opened oneself up for genuine social relationships. To activist reformers, whether adherents of medieval scholasticism, Renaissance humanism, or modern Enlightenment, this monastic idea of reform has seemed escapist, backward-looking, and "womanish." Monks accepted these labels but read them as signs of hidden strength. This book attempts to read through monastic lenses.
Reading in the Wilderness
Author: Jessica Brantley
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2008-09-15
Total Pages: 491
ISBN-13: 0226071340
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJust as twenty-first-century technologies like blogs and wikis have transformed the once private act of reading into a public enterprise, devotional reading experiences in the Middle Ages were dependent upon an oscillation between the solitary and the communal. In Reading in the Wilderness, Jessica Brantley uses tools from both literary criticism and art history to illuminate Additional MS 37049, an illustrated Carthusian miscellany housed in the British Library. This revealing artifact, Brantley argues, closes the gap between group spectatorship and private study in late medieval England. Drawing on the work of W. J. T. Mitchell, Michael Camille, and others working at the image-text crossroads, Reading in the Wilderness addresses the manuscript’s texts and illustrations to examine connections between reading and performance within the solitary monk’s cell and also outside. Brantley reimagines the medieval codex as a site where the meanings of images and words are performed, both publicly and privately, in the act of reading.
Contemplation and Philosophy: Scholastic and Mystical Modes of Medieval Philosophical Thought
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2018-08-07
Total Pages: 829
ISBN-13: 9004379290
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume collects essays which are thematically connected through the work of Kent Emery Jr., to whom the volume is dedicated. A main focus lies on the attempts to bridge the gap between mysticism and a systematic approach to medieval philosophical thought. The essays address a wide range of topics concerning (a) the nature of the human soul (in philosophical and theological discourse); (b) medieval theories of cognition (natural and supernatural), self-knowledge and knowledge of God; (c) the human soul’s contemplation of, and union with, God; (d) the tradition of “the modes of theology” in the Middle Ages; (e) the relation between philosophy and theology. Various articles are dedicated to major figures of the 13th and 14th century philosophy, others display new material based on critical editions. Contributors are Jan A. Aertsen, Stephen Brown, Bernardo Carlos Bazán, William J. Courtenay, Alfredo Santiago Culleton, Silvia Donati, Bernd Goehring, Guy Guldentops, Daniel Hobbins, Roberto Hofmeister Pich, Georgi Kapriev, Steven P. Marrone, Stephen M. Metzger, Timothy B. Noone, Mikolaj Olszewski, Alessandro Palazzo, Garrett R. Smith, Andreas Speer, Carlos Steel, Loris Sturlese, Chris Schabel, Christian Trottmann, and Gordon A. Wilson.
Jean Gerson
Author: Jean Gerson
Publisher: Paulist Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 520
ISBN-13: 9780809104987
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHere are selected seminal writings of Jean Gerson (1363-1429), chancellor of the University of Paris, academic, humanist, Christian teacher and reformer, and one of the greatest theologians and mystical writers of the middle ages.
The Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ
Author: Nicholas Love
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-05-29
Total Pages: 775
ISBN-13: 0429588925
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPublished in 2005: At a time when the church sought to control and constrain lay access to vernacular and paramystical texts, the author’s translation, sanctioned by the Archbishop of Canterbury, met a pressing need for religious guidance among lay people. It became one of the most copied works of the fifteenth century.
Medieval Texts in Context
Author: Graham D. Caie
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008-04-01
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 1134238460
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of essays by leading experts in manuscript studies sheds new light on ways to approach medieval texts in their manuscript context. Each contribution provides groundbreaking insight into the field of medieval textual culture, demonstrating the various interconnections between medieval material and literary traditions. The contributors’ work aids reconstruction of the period’s writing practices, as contextual factors surrounding the texts provide clues to the ‘manuscript experience’. Topics such as scribal practice and textual providence, glosses, rubrics, page lay-out, and even page ruling, are addressed in a manner illustrative and suggestive of textual practice of the time, while the volume further considers the interface between the manuscript and early textual communities. Looking at medieval inventories of books no longer extant, and addressing questions such as ownership, reading practices and textual production, Medieval Texts in Context addresses the fundamental interpretative issue of how scribe-editors worked with an eye to their intended audience. An understanding of the world inhabited by the scribal community is made use of to illuminate the rationale behind the manufacture of devotional texts. The combination of approaches to the medieval vernacular manuscript presented in this volume is unique, marking a major, innovative contribution to manuscript studies.
