, Brepols, 2023 Hardback, xvi + 300 pages, Size:152 x 229 mm, Illustrations:23 col., Language: English. ISBN 9780888448361.
Summary This volume offers a substantial and versatile contribution to the history and culture of the late-medieval Carthusians in England. The nine essays presented here focus primarily on the double charterhouses built on the outskirts of London, at Smithfield and Sheen. Syon Abbey, the Bridgettine house which stood a short distance from Sheen, and was founded at the same time, is also drawn into the conversation because of its sympathetic and practical links to the Carthusians. Particular attention is paid to the London Charterhouse. This institution is revaluated here as an engineered and ornamented structure, a sanctuary nourished by books and texts, a beacon of religion, a theatre of devotion and political manoeuvres and, in the wake of its dissolution, both a dwelling-place for affluent citizenry and a lieu de m moire for the English Carthusians in exile. TABLE OF CONTENTS llustrations Abbreviations James P. Carley ? Preface Julian Luxford ? Introduction Part 1: The Material Record Julian Luxford ? The London Charterhouse: Iconography, Buildings, and Art Glyn Coppack ? Water and the Carthusians: The Contribution of the London Charterhouse to Knowledge of the Order's Plumbing Part 2: Spiritual Writings and Textual Transmission Marlene Villalobos Hennessy ? British Library, MS Egerton 1821: Devotional Practice and Book Production at the London Charterhouse Michael G. Sargent ? The Transmission by the English Carthusians of Some Late-Medieval Spiritual Writings: A Reconsideration of Walter Hilton and Nicholas Love Vincent Gillespie ? Preaching to the Choir: Another Look at English Carthusian Transmission of Vernacular Spiritual Writings Part 3: Religious Conscience, Politics, and Afterlife Ann M. Hutchison ? United in Devotion and Martyrdom: The English Carthusians and Bridgettines and Their Fate Diarmaid MacCulloch ? The End of the Carthusians at the London Charterhouse James P. Carley ? After the Dissolution: John Leland and His Neighbours in Charterhouse Square Peter Cunich ? Maurice Chauncy and the Burdens of the English Reformation Epilogue Martyn Percy ? A Eucharist for Martyrs: ?A Fragrant Offering and Sacrifice? - A Sermon Preached at the London Charterhouse on 3 September 2016 Contributors Index