{"title":"The three births of Christ and the Christmas liturgy in **the Temple of our soul**, **the Evangelical pearl** and the **Arnhem mystical sermons**","authors":"R. Faesen","doi":"10.2143/OGE.81.1.2049259","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2143/OGE.81.1.2049259","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39580,"journal":{"name":"Ons Geestelijk Erf","volume":"81 1","pages":"121-137"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68171264","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"For which we are created:\" The Image of God as the Fundament for Deification in the Arnhem Mystical Sermons","authors":"Ineke Cornet","doi":"10.2143/OGE.81.1.2049258","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2143/OGE.81.1.2049258","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39580,"journal":{"name":"Ons Geestelijk Erf","volume":"81 1","pages":"101-120"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68171743","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tussen de doornen pluk ik de rozen","authors":"L. V. Beek","doi":"10.2143/OGE.80.4.2047111","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2143/OGE.80.4.2047111","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39580,"journal":{"name":"Ons Geestelijk Erf","volume":"80 1","pages":"281-312"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68170580","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Dutch Translation of The Life of Adam and Eve","authors":"Bob Miller","doi":"10.2143/OGE.80.4.2047112","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2143/OGE.80.4.2047112","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39580,"journal":{"name":"Ons Geestelijk Erf","volume":"80 1","pages":"313-373"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68171397","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sinte Gregorius seet...","authors":"Mathilde van Dijk","doi":"10.2143/OGE.80.3.2045816","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2143/OGE.80.3.2045816","url":null,"abstract":"The adherents of the Devotio Moderna regarded the Church Fathers as reliable guides in their search for true piety, which they defined as the imitation of Christ. This article discusses the role of one of the most important among them, Gregory the Great, and takes its point of departure from the surviving texts that were ascribed to him in the convent of Saint Agnes at Maaseik. The purpose is to study how these regular canonesses used Gregory in their education, how they appropriated his work and constructed him as a valuable helper in their search for spiritual perfection. The Maaseik collection contains both authentic and none- authentic work, such as the prayer Te adoro in crucem. Several manuscripts contain larger excerpts or dicta, amongst others in the Middle Dutch copy of Gerard Zerbolt of Zutphen's De spiritualibus ascensionibus. In addition, the regular canonesses at Maaseik owned a complete Middle Dutch version of Gregory's Homiliae in Evangelia. As far as modem devouts like the sisters at Maaseik were concerned, Gregory's work was a part of the Divine Truth, like the other Church Fathers' texts. Therefore, they felt free to link quotations from his work to quotations from other Church Fathers, in order to reach a meaningful interpretation, which would help them in their search for spiritual perfection. They focused on specific texts such as the Moralia in Job and the Homiliae in evangelia or parts thereof, which, in their view, provided the best advice for imitation of Christ. They loved Gregory because of the practical orientation of his work. Furthermore, in many ways he suited their spirituality, for instance in his stress on performative aspects of piety. At the same time it is clear that they interpreted him in order to be able to follow his lead in their context of a cloistered convent, for instance by practicing active charity primarily among their fellow sisters. Furthermore they enhanced certain elements in his work, such as his representation of the Christ as food.","PeriodicalId":39580,"journal":{"name":"Ons Geestelijk Erf","volume":"80 1","pages":"142-170"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68170831","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Een oude spiegel voor nieuwe maagden","authors":"S. Corbellini","doi":"10.2143/OGE.80.3.2045817","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2143/OGE.80.3.2045817","url":null,"abstract":"The article aims at reconstructing the production and the diffusion of the Middle Dutch text Spieghel der maechden, a late fourteenth-century translation of the twelfth-century treatise Speculum virginum. Research shows that the manuscripts containing the Spieghel der maechden circulated in the first years after the translation mainly in communities of tertiaries associated to the Chapter of Utrecht. The treatise, which promoted an enclosed life for female religious, was probably used in the spiritual education of tertiaries. More specifically, the Spieghel der maechden served as an instrument of formation in the process of claustralization of communities following the third rule of Saint Francis. The relevance of the text in the organization of spiritual life in convents of tertiaries is evidenced by the explicit reference to the Spieghel der maechden in the Informieringheboeck der jongen (1510-1512) written by Jan de Wael, confessor of the convent of tertiaries St. Agnes in Amersfoort. In the Informieringheboeck, the Spieghel der maechden is described as an instrument in the formation of novices and in the preparation to claustral life.","PeriodicalId":39580,"journal":{"name":"Ons Geestelijk Erf","volume":"80 1","pages":"171-198"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68170365","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ubertino da Casale and the Devotio Moderna","authors":"S. Mossman","doi":"10.2143/OGE.80.3.2045818","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2143/OGE.80.3.2045818","url":null,"abstract":"The Arbor vitae crucifixae of the Franciscan Spiritual Ubertino da Casale († c. 1330), a compendious life of Christ in five books, enjoyed a very substantial transmission in the late medieval Low Countries, but — significantly — not elsewhere in northern Europe. The first part of this study presents a conspectus and analysis of the manuscript transmission of the Arbor vitae in the Low Countries and, for purposes of comparison, in the German-speaking regions, both in Latin and in Dutch (and Low German) translation. This expands the known transmission of the work by a factor of about two. The Latin text is shown to have circulated almost exclusively amongst the Canons Regular of the Windesheim Congregation, and surprisingly to have been scarcely known in the Franciscan order. There was no complete translation into any vernacular language, but in Dutch translation it was transmitted in excerpt to constitute four main types of new textual forms: prayers, shorter texts concerning Mary, spiritual exercises, and texts on the interior suffering of Christ. It also served as an important source for the composition of Dutch-language lives of Christ. The second part of the study examines the reasons for the particular interest in the Arbor vitae in the milieu of the Devotio Moderna. The spiritual exercises set out in the prologues to the work, and which are then used to structure the fourth book (on Christ's Passion), are shown to be precisely congruent with the specific forms of methodical meditation developed in the early years of the movement. Ubertino's understanding of the suffering of Christ as a primarily interior, life-long phenomenon, to which much attention is given in the fourth book and to which the reader is specifically directed in the work's prologues, is shown to accord with a novel approach to Christ's sufferings in the works of Gerard Zerbolt van Zutphen, one of the most important writers of the first generation of Modem Devout. It is then proven that the Arbor vitae was the immediate source both in this respect and in terms of mystical theology for the De passione Domini of Jan van Schoonhoven (written 1404-07), the figure responsible for introducing the spirituality of Groenendaal into the Devotio Modema. The third part of the study provides a conspectus of all works from the Low Countries of the period c. 1410 — c. 1520 known to draw upon the Arbor vitae. This demonstrates a somewhat wider knowledge of the work in the later period, notably in Carthusian circles. A final contrast is offered to the warm reception of the Arbor vitae in the Low Countries, in the form of Jean Gerson's criticism of precisely those aspects of the work which attracted the most positive attention amongst the Modern Devout.","PeriodicalId":39580,"journal":{"name":"Ons Geestelijk Erf","volume":"80 1","pages":"199-280"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68170391","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Naar voorbeeld van de vaders","authors":"M. V. Dijk","doi":"10.2143/OGE.80.3.2045815","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2143/OGE.80.3.2045815","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39580,"journal":{"name":"Ons Geestelijk Erf","volume":"80 1","pages":"139-141"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68169642","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}