Interrupting God: Sounding Out Emergency in the Cloud and the Consuetudines

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...

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Main Author: Field, Rebecca (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
Published: 2025
In: Journal of medieval religious cultures
Year: 2025, Volume: 51, Issue: 2, Pages: 171-186
IxTheo Classification:CB Christian life; spirituality
KAF Church history 1300-1500; late Middle Ages
KCA Monasticism; religious orders
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