De Cella in Seculum
Religious and Secular Life and Devotion in Late Medieval England
De Cella in Seculum
Religious and Secular Life and Devotion in Late Medieval England
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Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 9780859912686
Number of Pages: 282
Published: 06/04/1989
Width: 15.6 cm
Height: 23.4 cm
Essays 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.
An 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..r130>compensera l'130>tude de quiconque s'int130>resse 133> la spiritualit130> de la fin du moyen 131>ge en Angleterre.' D. BRADLEY Revue d'Histoire Eccl130>siastique t.LXXXV (1990), p.871 of interest to scholars of many disciplines.' S.J. OGILVIE-THOMPSON Rev. Eng. St. 42, 166; 5/91
