RT Article
T1 Interrupting God: Sounding Out Emergency in the Cloud and the Consuetudines
JF Journal of medieval religious cultures
VO 51
IS 2
SP 171
OP 186
A1 Field, Rebecca
LA English
YR 2025
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1934688983
AB This article offers new textual evidence to strengthen the argument for a Carthusian authorship of the Cloud of Unknowing. It suggests that chapters 37 and 38 of the Cloud make reference to a passage in the Consuetudines of Prior Guigo I. The passage states that a Carthusian monk may only break his vow of silence in response to a "strange cry" or "danger of fire." The essay explores the affective, sonic, and meditative implications of crying "fire" as a method of contemplative prayer in the Cloud and argues that this word had uniquely potent connotations for the Carthusian reader.