John Kramer (Catholic Encyclopedia article)
Antoine Dégert · 1913
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John Kramer, also called Institor, was a Carthusian of Buxheim whose ascetic writings were much read in medieval monasteries. Born near the end of the fourteenth century, he entered the charterhouse of Buxheim in Bavaria. He lived there as a pious, obedient religious until his death between 1437 and 1440.
His Breviloquium teaches a religious the practices that keep him a faithful child of the Church and lead to perfection on earth and happiness in heaven. It then warns, by a quaint allegory of twenty birds of prey, eagle, vulture, hawk, and owl among them, against the faults of monastic life. His second work exhorts readers to avoid evil anger. Though written in a rude, uncultured style, both books show the rigorous Carthusian asceticism of the fifteenth century, softened by touches of mystical tenderness.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Antoine Dégert |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 1913 |
| COLLECTION | REFERENCE |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 2 KB |
| LICENSE | PUBLIC_DOMAIN |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | New Advent — Catholic Encyclopedia (1913) |