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The Carthusian Milieu of Love’s Mirror
In his essay, ‘The Haunted Text’, Vincent Gillespie, following A.I. Doyle, has warned that ‘we need to look more carefully at Carthusian interventions in contemporary spiritual writing and … assess the evidence for textual circulation cautiously, without assuming that wide dissemination beyond an audience of confreres or fellow religious was ever a common intention of Carthusian scribes and authors’.[1] This re-examination is, however, not applied to one of the most widely circulating Carthusian texts produced in the fifteenth century: Nicholas Love’s translation of…
About the New Design
The new Geographies of Orthodoxy website is designed to make accessing and reading news from the project clearer and easier to navigate. A featured post allows us to profile a specific entry which is, we feel, significant to ongoing research…
Scribal Hands Update
I offer a long overdue update to the scribal hands entry. After a presentation I gave in Kalamazoo 2008 (“Some Fifteenth Century Readings of Nicholas Love’s Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ: John Rylands Library Eng. 98 and Longleat House MS 14″), David Watt, Assistant Professor at the the University of Manitoba, recognised the scribe of John Rylands Library MS 98…
A Survey of Scribal Hands: a new feature of the project database
The Geographies of Orthodoxy team have decided to add a new feature to the online database that we believe will make this resource even more useful to scholars and students of later Medieval literary culture. We are planning to add scanned samples of scribal forms from manuscripts within the corpus, and thus to allow the […]
Welcoming Allan Westphall and David Falls
We are delighted to announce the appointment of Allan Fogh Westphall as the second postdoctoral research associate on the Geographies of Orthodoxy project. Allan’s research interests include medieval religious cultures, Middle English devotional writing, especially mystical writing, performance and affective Christocentric devotion, devotional lyric poetry, Lollardy and heresy, and, more broadly, medieval theology and intellectual […]
Reviews: Michelle Karnes, “Nicholas Love and Medieval Meditations on Christ…”
Michelle Karnes, “Nicholas Love and Medieval Meditations on Christ: Interiority, Imagination and Meditations on the Life of Christ.” Speculum 82 (2007): pp. 380-408. Citations from this post must be properly and appropriately acknowledged Michelle Karnes has provided a welcome sign of the renewed critical interest in pseudo-Bonaventuran ‘Lives of Christ’, or, as she argues they […]
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