The Meditations Of Guigo I: Prior of the Charterhouse (Cistercian Studies)
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| Rating | : | 4.11 (759 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0879076550 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 199 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-05-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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the best English translation bmuse Nine hundred years ago, Guigo the author, a monk at the Grand Chartreuse motherhouse of Carthusians, was elected the prior of his monastery and the minister general of the newly-founded Carthusian Order. He was less than thirty years of age; the order's founder, Saint Bruno of Cologne[Koln], had by then died in Calabria. The critical research of the past hundred years resulted in the conclusion that young Dom Guigo began writing down his "Meditations" in his first years in the monastery; then, when elected Prior/Reverend Father, he continued to keep his journal, i
His personal reflections on Holy Scripture take the form of a spiritual journey in which he blends theology and personal experience, daily practicality and ascetic insight, in a way both typical of twelfth-century reformed monasticism and uniquely carthusian.. The fifth prior of the Grande Chartreuse, Guigo I was esteemed as 'a prior worthy of eternal fame', a prudent man and immensely erudite in both secular and sacred studies
Language Notes Text: English (translation) Original Language: Latin