Contemplative Christianity from the 9th Through 12th Centuries: Latin West
THIS simple timeline highlights the gap in Christian theology between Eriugena (9th century) and the flourishing in the 11th and 12th centuries. The intervening period was the late Dark Age – when...
View ArticleContemplative Christianity in the 13th and 14th Centuries: Latin West
(click image to view in high resolution) HERE we extend the previous timeline forward to the 13th and 14th centuries. Legend: Olive = Benedictine; Light green: Cistercian; Purple: Dominican; Orange =...
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Thomas Gallus: Interior Angelic Hierarchies and More
Francesco Botticini, The Assumption of the Virgin (c. 1475; detail) THOMAS GALLUS (c.1200−1246; Thomas of Vercelli, Thomas of St. Victor) studied at the Abbey of Saint Victor in Paris before...
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Walter Hilton’s Song of Angels
Bl. Fra Angelico, Dormition and Assumption of the Virgin (c.1424−1434), detail IN the Introduction to her edition of the Cloud of Unknowing, Evelyn Underhill refers to “an exquisite fragment” by the...
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