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Send Me God: The Lives of Ida the Compassionate of Nivelles, Nun of La Ramee, Arnulf, Lay Brother of Villers, and Abundus, Monk of Villers
Author: Goswin Of Bussut
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In the early thirteenth century the diocese of Liege witnessed an extraordinary religious revival, known to us largely through the abundant corpus of saints lives from that region. Cistercian monks, nuns, beguines, and recluses formed close-knit networks of spiritual friendship that easily crossed the boundaries of gender, religious status, and even language. Holy women such as Mary of Oignies and Christina the Astonishing were held up by their biographers as models of orthodoxy and miraculous powers. Less familiar but no less fascinating are the male saints of the region. In this volume Martinus Cawley, ocso, has translated a trilogy of Cistercian lives composed by the same hagiographer, Goswin, who was a monk and cantor at the celebrated abbey of Villers in Brabant. Although all three of these saints were connected with the same order, their versions of holiness represent a study in contrasts, from the compassionate nun Ida of Nivelles, remarkable for her eucharistic raptures, to the fiercely ascetic lay brother Arnulf, to the gentle monk Abundus, renowned for his deep liturgical and Marian piety. The title Send Me God derives from a revealing catch-phrase that devout men and women used to request prayers from their spiritual friends.ReviewThe Lives stemming from the thirteenth-century southern Low Countries, an area corresponding roughly to modern Belgium or the medieval diocese of Liege, form a canon probably unique in the annals of hagiography.... These saints were collectively celebrated not for their outstanding leadership, brilliant preaching or stupendous miracles, but for the intensity of their inner lives.... Whether we find this canon of saints Lives attractive or alien, annoying or enticing, will depend very much on our own sensibilities. But the cantor of Villers confronts us with a distinctive, hitherto little known voice that deserves at last to be heard. --from the Preface by Barbara NewmanThis volume, containing the Lives of Ida the Compassionate of Nivelles and other medieval Cistercian saints, makes a major contribution to our understanding of monastic life and thought in the High Middle Ages. I am certain that it will be welcomed in the scholarly world and will be used by generations of professors, graduate students, and others interested in medieval spirituality. --Brian Patrick McGuire, author of Jean Gerson and the Last Medieval ReformationThis book brings together three Lives, all of Cestercians from thirteenth-century Flanders a nun, a lay brother, and a choir monk, collected in a single volume, handsomely (and heavily) bound. Barbara Newmans fine Preface gives a helpful orientation to the kind of hagiography represented by these Lives and many others set in the same time and region. . . . The extensive research Fr. Martinus has done is reflected in the copious notes these include references to the geography of the area, the Statutes of the Order and the decisions of the early General Chapters and give context to the Lives. The notes also contain cross-references to words and themes elsewhere in the volume, as well as the explanations of some of the translations. --Edith Scholl, Cistercian Studies QuarterlyThis volume, containing the Lives of Ida the Compassionate of Nivelles and other medieval Cistercian saints, makes a major contribution to our understanding of monastic life and thought in the High Middle Ages. I am certain that it will be welcomed in the scholarly world and will be used by generations of professors, graduate students, and others interested in medieval spirituality. --Brian Patrick McGuire, author of Jean Gerson and the Last Medieval ReformationThis book brings together three Lives, all of Cestercians from thirteenth-century Flanders a nun, a lay brother, and a choir monk, collected in a single volume, handsomely (and heavily) bound. Barbara Newmans fine Preface gives a helpful orientation to the kind of hagiography represented by these Lives and many others set in the same time and region. . . . The extensive research Fr. Martinus has done is reflected in the copious notes these include references to the geography of the area, the Statutes of the Order and the decisions of the early General Chapters and give context to the Lives. The notes also contain cross-references to words and themes elsewhere in the volume, as well as the explanations of some of the translations. --Edith Scholl, Cistercian Studies Quarterly About the AuthorMartinus Cawley is a member of the community of Our Lady of GuadalupeTrappist Abbey in Lafayette, Oregon.
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