De Cella in Seculum: Religious and Secular Life and Devotion in Late Medieval England

by Michael G Sargent (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780859912686
Publisher:	Boydell & Brewer, Limited
Publication date:	04/06/1989
Pages:	282
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x (d)

Editorial Reviews

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..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

166; 5/91 S.J. OGILVIE-THOMPSON Rev. Eng. St. 42

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..r<130>compensera l'<130>tude de quiconque s'int<130>resse <133> la spiritualit<130> de la fin du moyen <131>ge en Angleterre.' D. BRADLEY Revue d'Histoire Eccl<130>siastique t.LXXXV (1990), p.871 'of interest to scholars of many disciplines.' S.J. OGILVIE-THOMPSON Rev. Eng. St. 42, 166; 5/91

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