Chapter 2 Mournful Travelers Gazing at the Chartreuse: Carthusian Representation and Self-Representation from the Late Middle Ages to Modern Times

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgments
3. Contents V
4. Abbreviations
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I: Historical Narratives: From Origins until the Early Modern Period
7. Chapter 1 “Origo ordinis Cartusienses”: Bruno, Guigo, and the First Carthusians 13
8. Chapter 2 Mournful Travelers Gazing at the Chartreuse: Carthusian Representation and Self-Representation from the Late Middle Ages to Modern Times 31
9. Chapter 3 Memory of the Past and Aspirations Toward the Eternal: Exploring the Trajectory of Carthusian Historiography 57
10. Part II: Materiality and Spiritual Life
11. Chapter 4 The Planning of Carthusian Charterhouses in the Later Middle Ages in England and the Netherlands 89
12. Chapter 5 Carthusian Architecture and Art (Twelfth–Sixteenth Century) 145
13. Chapter 6 Stability and Change in Carthusian Liturgy and Music 177
14. Chapter 7 Charting Carthusian Community Life: From Its Origins to the Sixteenth Century 207
15. Chapter 8 Carthusian Ethics 235
16. Part III: Society and Textuality
17. Chapter 9 The Carthusians in Medieval England: The Desert, the Church, and the State 263
18. Chapter 10 The Role of the Carthusians in the Development of Middle Dutch Mystical Theology 287
19. Chapter 11 Carthusian English Literature in and out of Cloister: Scribes, Authors, Translators, Correctors, and Patrons of Fifteenth-Century Women’s Writing 315
20. Part IV: Texts and Authors
21. Chapter 12 Guigo II: A Master Teacher 353
22. Chapter 13 Carthusian Nuns in Medieval France: The Example of Marguerite d’Oingt 383
23. Chapter 14 Denys the Carthusian and a Late Medieval Theological Predicament 407
24. Chapter 15 Ludolph of Saxony and His Life of Jesus Christ 431
25. List of Contributors
26. Index