These precious volumes offer an illuminating, even dazzling, insight into Carthusian ways that are little known, indeed traditionally hidden. Here are men who for all their silence need to be heard.The Tablet

• ContentsAcknowledgements   vii1  The Poor in the Old Testament   12  A People Poor and Humble   63  The Spirituality of the Poor   114  The Messiah of the Poor   195  The Prayer of the Poor   306  Who Are You?   537  And I, Who Am I?   668  Mary and Her Song of Poverty   739  The Poor in the New Testament   7610  St Paul and Poverty   8411  The Rich   8812  The Poor Christ   9613  Poverty and Sharing   10314  Evangelical Poverty in Primitive Monasticism   11315  Some Texts on Poverty in Primitive Monasticism   12416  Evangelical Poverty through the Centuries   13417  The first Carthusians and Poverty   143Map of the Desert of Chartreuse   15518  Carthusian Poverty through the Centuries   156

These precious volumes offer an illuminating, even dazzling, insight into Carthusian ways that are little known, indeed traditionally hidden. Here are men who for all their silence need to be heard.The Tablet

• ContentsAcknowledgements   vii1  The Poor in the Old Testament   12  A People Poor and Humble   63  The Spirituality of the Poor   114  The Messiah of the Poor   195  The Prayer of the Poor   306  Who Are You?   537  And I, Who Am I?   668  Mary and Her Song of Poverty   739  The Poor in the New Testament   7610  St Paul and Poverty   8411  The Rich   8812  The Poor Christ   9613  Poverty and Sharing   10314  Evangelical Poverty in Primitive Monasticism   11315  Some Texts on Poverty in Primitive Monasticism   12416  Evangelical Poverty through the Centuries   13417  The first Carthusians and Poverty   143Map of the Desert of Chartreuse   15518  Carthusian Poverty through the Centuries   156