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Most studies of late medieval culture focus on the sources and seeds of changes that led to the Renaissance and Reformation. Fifteenth-Century Carthusian Reform refracts conventional views of late medieval thought through a lens provided by the life and writings of a traditionalist member of a contemplative monastic order that was beginning to open itself to urban and humanist activism. It presents the backward-looking meekness of traditional monastic discretio as a full-orbed idea of reform and a foil to a scholastic hermeneutic. Through the university and monastic career of Nicholas Kempf, an Alsatian Carthusian in rural Austria and Slovenia, the book explores the cultural orbit of the University of Vienna during the mid-15th century by considering pastoral, pedagogical and monastic reform and patristic and humanist rhetoric.

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' a scholarly tour de force' James Overfield, Catholic Historical Review, 1993<br>' It is the very valuable contribution of Professor Martin to have rescued those works from five hundred years of Charthusian obscurity.'<br>John B. Wickstrom, Speculum, 1994.<br>' I encourage monastic women and men and monastic sympathizers to obtain this book and to find in its crooked lines a path to an understanding of themselves, their communities, and their traditions.'<br>Brian Patrick McGuire, Bulletin of Monastic Spirituality, 1995.<br>' This thoroughly-researched book has much to offer the church historian...E.J. Brill published this book, and every scholar knows what that means.'<br>Joseph F. Kelly, Church History, 1995.<br>' auf allen Ebenen ein hvchst informatives, lesenswertes Buch.' Martin Ohst, Theologische Rundschau, 2002.<br>

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Dennis D. Martin (Ph.D. in History, University of Waterloo, Canada) is Associate Professor of historical theology at Loyola University, Chicago.

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