(9) While Cistercians are a Benedictine reform order, Carthusians are formally sui generis, although various women's convents, including some Benedictine convents, joined the order after the first convent of Prebayon joined the
Carthusian order.
A recipient of the 2011 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Publication Award for a Manuscript in Italian Literary Studies, Demetrio Yocum presents Petrarch's writings, including personal correspondence and journal entries, to argue for Petrarch's intimate relationship with the Carthusian order, and to make a case for Carthusianism's intellectual and spiritual influence on Petrarch's humanism, and how this humanism in turn shaped the Renaissance.
The swift rise in the number of charterhouses in the fourteenth century reflects how the Carthusian order had become more open, and had attracted patrons, artists, scholars, and intellectuals such as Petrarch who were opposed to scholastic ideals.Yocum shows how Petrarch's life mirrored that of Carthusian charterhouses.
"I thought I had to try this lifestyle out because it had never gone away and though I first tried the hermit lifestyle of the
Carthusian Order I ended up on Caldey Island," said Mr Lyons, now 74.
The book introduces readers to the
Carthusian Order and its practices in chapter 2, relying largely on four sets of customs spanning the twelfth to sixteenth centuries.
In the 14th and 15th centuries, the
Carthusian order's perpetual abstinence from meat stimulated both defense and intellectual investigation of the community's practice, especially regarding its extension to the sick.
INTO GREAT SILENCE (164mins) is a lengthy and at times soporific documentary about life inside the Grande Chartreuse, the head monastery of the
Carthusian Order in France.
It was chosen by the strict
Carthusian order of monks as the ideal place for their sanctuary for peaceful prayer and contemplation.
It was said that a local parish priest, Robert Palmer, was on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land when he heard a voice telling him to join the
Carthusian order. On his return to Coventry he had a vision of the place where he should found a new monastery and he marked out the land next to the London Road.
Scholars are aware of the movements of men and books within the
Carthusian order, nationally and internationally, and also of communications between Sheen and Syon across the Thames.
"After this he should consider what the Father of all consolation confers not on everyone but specifically on him, on someone called by divine mercy to the priestly office or to the religious life of the
Carthusian Order. For this purgative path belongs solely to those who flock together far from the worldly path.