On Tue, 17 Sep 1996, Thomas Izbicki wrote:
> Julie Hotchin's question struck me asan important one. Some of the
> figures described in Kieckhefer, Unquiet Souls, seem extreme - at least
> by modern standards - in their practices; but I do not recall their
> having been trained in Benedictine houses.
To me, the striking thing about Kieckhefer's crew is that they are all
either outside religious life (third order mendicants, lay hangers-on) or
mendicants. They represent late medieval spirituality as it moves out on
to the streets with a rather different relationship to monastic rule and
the superior's "discretio" in interpreting it (Cassian, Benedict,
Hildegard, my man Nicholas Kempf the Carthusian).
Dennis Martin
Loyola University Chicago
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