The Vita Christi of Ludolph of Saxony, fourteenth-century Carthusian, is Ludolph of Saxony the most comprehensive series of meditations on the life of Christ from the late Middle Ages. Ludolph assembles a wealth of commentary from the fathers of the church and the great medieval spiritual writers and weaves them into a seamless exposition on the Gospel. This is the fi rst full English translation of this classic work, and it also is the fi rst edition in any language to identify the thousands of sources used by Ludolph, ...
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The Vita Christi of Ludolph of Saxony, fourteenth-century Carthusian, is Ludolph of Saxony the most comprehensive series of meditations on the life of Christ from the late Middle Ages. Ludolph assembles a wealth of commentary from the fathers of the church and the great medieval spiritual writers and weaves them into a seamless exposition on the Gospel. This is the fi rst full English translation of this classic work, and it also is the fi rst edition in any language to identify the thousands of sources used by Ludolph, both those he quotes and the many he cites without attribution. It will be of great interest to students of Christian spirituality, but it is intended, as was the original text, for ordinary believers seeking to enter more deeply into the meaning of the life of Christ.
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