Ruusbroec
Literature and Mysticism in the Fourteenth Century
Published on 28. February 2011
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Paperback/Softback
380 pages
978-90-04-20580-2 (ISBN)
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Jan van Ruusbroec (1293-1381), the most influential medieval Dutch author, is generally acknowledged to be one of the key figures in the tradition of Christian mysticism. This book concentrates on the medieval dimensions of Ruusbroec's authorship. Warnar offers a comprehensive analysis of Ruusbroec's oeuvre within the social, religious and literary frameworks of the fourteenth century Low Countries. Ruusbroec emerges as an author who was fully engaged in contemporary discussions on the contemplative life and mystical theology, as a charismatic guide who attracted a growing number of disciples first from the Low Countries but soon from all over Western Europe, and as the architect of a vernacular oeuvre of international interest from the Middle Ages to modern times.
Reviews / Votes
'Warnar's book will be indispensable for the study of Ruusbroec."Bernard McGinn, The Journal of Religion (July 2008) 403-404.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
All those interested in medieval studies, the history of religion, literary criticism, intellectual history, Church historians.
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Height: 231 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
550 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-20580-2 (9789004205802)
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Geert Warnar, Ph.D. (1995) in Medieval Literature, University of Leiden, is leading a five year research project (University of Leiden) on medieval Dutch Literature and learning, the subject of his recent publications.
Content
Author's Note and Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Introduction: Contested Wisdom
I. BRUSSELS
1. Ancestry and Inwardness
2. Lessons and Liturgy
3. Years of Silence
4. 'The first book he made'
II. THE ESPOUSALS
1. Bloemardinne and Beguine Mysticism
2. A Chaplain at the Church of St Gudula
3. The Espousals in Context
4. Masterpiece
III. 'THIS AUTHOR IS CALLED JAN VAN RUUSBROEC'
1. Inspired Authorship
2. Guide to Gottesfreunde
3. Heretics and Clerics
4. Conversation with a Hermit
IV. GROENENDAAL
1. Farewell to Brussels
2. Priests in the Forest
3. The Exposition of the Tabernacle
4. Jan van Leeuwen and the Lay Brothers
V. THE GOOD PRIOR
1. Scholars at Groenendaal
2. The Letters, the Baroness and the Convent of Rich Clares
3. Ruusbroec's Women
4. Highest Truth
VI. A CLEARLY ENLIGHTENED MAN
1. Ruusbroec's Latter Years
2. De numero et ordine suorum voluminum
3. Epilogue from Eemstein
4. Fireworks and Feasting
Bibliography
Index
List of Illustrations
Introduction: Contested Wisdom
I. BRUSSELS
1. Ancestry and Inwardness
2. Lessons and Liturgy
3. Years of Silence
4. 'The first book he made'
II. THE ESPOUSALS
1. Bloemardinne and Beguine Mysticism
2. A Chaplain at the Church of St Gudula
3. The Espousals in Context
4. Masterpiece
III. 'THIS AUTHOR IS CALLED JAN VAN RUUSBROEC'
1. Inspired Authorship
2. Guide to Gottesfreunde
3. Heretics and Clerics
4. Conversation with a Hermit
IV. GROENENDAAL
1. Farewell to Brussels
2. Priests in the Forest
3. The Exposition of the Tabernacle
4. Jan van Leeuwen and the Lay Brothers
V. THE GOOD PRIOR
1. Scholars at Groenendaal
2. The Letters, the Baroness and the Convent of Rich Clares
3. Ruusbroec's Women
4. Highest Truth
VI. A CLEARLY ENLIGHTENED MAN
1. Ruusbroec's Latter Years
2. De numero et ordine suorum voluminum
3. Epilogue from Eemstein
4. Fireworks and Feasting
Bibliography
Index