Poems and Counsels on Prayer and Contemplation - Couverture souple

More, Dom Gertrude

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0852449437 ISBN 13 : 9780852449431

Editeur : Gracewing, 2020

Synopsis

Among the earliest women to have their work in the English language printed, Dame Gertrude More was a Benedictine nun who spent her brief adult life in exile on the Continent. An important figure in the revitalization of English Benedictine life in the seventeenth century, she--along with her teacher Dom Augustine Baker and her community of nuns at Cambrai (now at Stanbrook Abbey)--provides a key link in the continuity of the medieval and modern western contemplative traditions of the English-speaking world. In the poems and counsels on prayer and contemplation found in this new edition of Dame Gertrude's shorter works, the reader will find subtle beauty, penetrating psychological and spiritual acuity, and a driving desire for divine union. Dame Gertrude's is a powerful and rare voice from the early modern cloister, speaking with wisdom of the contemplative life and the mysteries of the human soul.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Jacob Riyeff is a translator, poet, editor, and scholar who teaches in the English department at Marquette University. His work is centred on the western contemplative tradition from the early medieval period to the present day. Jacob is a Benedictine oblate of Osage Deanery and lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Gracewing
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0852449437
• ISBN 13: 9780852449431
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 148
• Éditeur: Riyeff Jacob
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