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The Scale

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2024

Conrad Pepler O.P.
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No study of English medieval spirituality would be complete without a treatise on Walter Hilton. That is patently true. It is also clear that he should come at the conclusion of such a study for he is at once the most learned and the most analytical of all these writers. He is a man of wide experience both in his life of prayer and in his direction of contemplative, religious, and he is a man who has studied in the Schools with greater patience than Eolle and with a tidier mind than the author of the Cloud of Unknowing.

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Research Article
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Life of the Spirit , Volume 4 , Issue 47 , May 1950 , pp. 504 - 511
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Copyright © 1950 Provincial Council of the English Province of the Order of Preachers

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References

1 Besides The Scale and The Minor Works (published in the Orchard Series by Burns Oates) there remains a great treasure store of his works still in MSS. Recently his translation of the Stimulus Amoris has been, unearthed by Miss C. Kirchborger at the Bodleian and will, wo hope, soon find its way into print.

2 Translated from the Flemish by F. Sherwood Taylor under this title and published by the Dacrc Press, 1943.

3 Edited in the Orchard Series by Clare Kirechberger. (Hums Oates. 1927.) Cf. Div. XIV.

4 References are to the number of the book and of the chapter according to the Orchard Series edition (Burns Oates; 1927).

5 Minor Works. No 1. Published in the Orchard Series. (Burns Gates. 1929.)

6 Compare: 'Contemplation which is divine love and knowledge in one'. John of the Cross. Living Flams 3, 32. Peen. iii. 177.

7 Cf: ii, 29, p. 202; ii, 30, pp.296-7; ii.32, pp. 309-10.