The Mystical Tradition and the Carthusians: Internationaler Kongress vom 20. bis zum 23. September 1995 anlasslich der Emeritierung des Herausgebers der Analecta Cartusiana, 8 vols.

The eight volumes that comprise Analecta Cartusiana cxxx represent the proceedings of the conference held in 1995 at the Cistercian abbey of Lilienfeld in Austria to mark the retirement of the editor and founder of the Analecta, Dr James Hogg. The series is entirely sui generis: produced with neither sponsorship nor subsidy from the Carthusian Order, Hogg has none the less managed to publish well over 200 volumes since founding the series in 1970. The result is a very mixed bag indeed: learned articles and monographs (by no means all of them having any connection with the Carthusians), photographic reproductions of early printed texts, and a vast diversity of spiritual reflections and architectural studies appear alongside each other in many different languages, with little typographical coherence and only minimal editorial control (the latter the inevitable consequence of severe financial constraint). Yet the series also includes a number of editions and studies which have become …