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How a Man may be Contemplative

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2024

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The Stimulus Amoris, long attributed to St Bonaventure but now known to be a composite work, the main part of which was written by James of Milan, a thirteenth century Franciscan, was extremely popular in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Walter Hiltou made a translation of it, adding many passages of great beauty and interest. The work has not been printed hitherto. We give a chapter in which Hilton's additions are printed in brackets. The text is taken from MS. Vernon.

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Research Article
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Copyright © 1950 Provincial Council of the English Province of the Order of Preachers

References

1 Lat. creatoris.

2 grade, degree.

3 according to his state.

4 unity.

5 Lat. Deo.

6 Hilton uses 'brother' for Lat. prorimus throughout

7 disgusting.

8 show horror at a leper.

9 allusion to Cant. 1: 7.

10 Cf. Scale II, ch. 3D for fuller development of this thought.

11 Lat. has deificatus.

12 cf. the phrase 'every which way'.

13 Lat. Deum.