Devotio Deliciosa: Denis the Carthusian on the Mass and the Eucharist - Hardcover

Denis the Carthusian: - For a monk cloistered for most of his life in a Charterhouse at Roermond, a city now in the Limburg province of the Netherlands-and a monk, moreover, bound by a strict discipline of silence-Denis the Carthusian (1402-1471) left a remarkably vivid and far-reaching legacy. Author of some 180 works arranged in forty-two volumes, he stands at the crossroads of the waning Middle Ages and the early Renaissance. Informally regarded as a saint and honored with the title Doctor Ecstaticus, Denis, clothed outwardly in the rough woolen habit of the Carthusians, adorned his mind with a richly multicolored intellectual inheritance.He was above all a follower of Christ: an indefatigable commentator on Sacred Scripture (having written on every book of the Bible), a devoted student of the Fathers and Doctors of the Church, a disciple of St. Bruno, founder of his order, an heir to the mystical theology attributed to Dionysius the Areopagite, a loyal follower of St. Thomas Aquinas, a friend and correspondent of the great polymath Nicholas of Cusa, and a defender of the controversial Augustinian mystic and fellow Lowlander, Blessed John of Ruusbroec. For centuries, the study of his philosophically and theologically encyclopedic works was considered indispensable: Qui Dionysium legit, nihil non legit-"He who reads Denis leaves nothing unread."