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Book SynopsisEssays on the life of Hugh of Avalon"All those concerned with the contribution of monasticism to the devotional life of the external world will find much to inform and stimulate them among these papers." JOURNAL OF ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY Essays on the life of Hugh of Avalon, on the relationship between the hermitic Carthusian vocation and the outside world; on the reflection of the world in religious literature; and on the transmission of mystical and devotional ideals and writings for a secular audience.
Trade ReviewAn extremely rich collection of materials for those interested in late medieval spirituality, especially those strands connected to the Carthusians and influential in Middle English devotional works. * BULLETIN CODICOLOGIQUE *
`Ce recueil..rcompensera l'tude de quiconque s'intresse la spiritualit de la fin du moyen ge en Angleterre.' D. BRADLEY Revue d'Histoire Ecclsiastique t.LXXXV (1990), p.871 `of interest to scholars of many disciplines.' S.J. OGILVIE-THOMPSON Rev. Eng. St. 42, 166; 5/91 * S.J. OGILVIE-THOMPSON Rev. Eng. St. 42, 166; 5/91 *
Table of ContentsHugh of Lincoln, Carthusian saint, David Farmer; de cella in seculum - the liturgical aspects, Richard Pfaff; Giraldus de Barri's homage to Hugh of Avalon, Richard Loomis; St Hugh of Lincoln, Carthusian and bishop, H.E.J.Cowdrey; love of the world in the "Meditations" of Guigo I, Rev Gordon Mursell; Adam the Carthusian's "De Quadripertito Exercitio Cellae", James L.Hogg; opus dei, opus mundi - patterns of conflict in a 12th century miracle collection, Gordon Whatley; "for the commun at understand" - "Cursor Mundi" and its background, Sarah Horrall; the audience for the middle English mystics, S.S.Hussey; Richard Rolle as elitist and as popularist - the case of "Judica Me"; "noght how lang a man lifs, but how wele" - the laity and the ladder of perfection; cura pastoralis in deserto, Vincent Gillespie; Lollard interpolations and omissions in manuscripts of "The Pore Caitif", Sr M.Teresa Brady; "The Pomander of Prayer" - aspects of late medieval English Carthusian spirituality and its lay audience, Rev Robert Horsfield; devotional reading in the monastery and in the late medieval household, Ann M.Hutchison; pictures in print - late 15th and early 16th century English religious books for lay readers, Martha W.Driver.
