Nicholas Love (monk)
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Nicholas Love, also known as Nicholas Luff, (died c. 1424) was the first prior and fourth rector of the Carthusian house of Mount Grace Priory in Yorkshire names Robert Tredwye first prior). Love translated the "Meditationes Vitae Christi" (by Pseudo-Bonaventure, that is, attributed to St. Bonaventure) as "The Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ". Around the year 1410, he submitted his translation to Thomas Arundel, Archbishop of Canterbury, in conformity with the strictures of the Oxford Constitutions of 1407–09, which had forbidden all new translations of biblical material in any form, without the submission of the material to the local bishop for approval. The archbishop had taken this action in an attempt to stop the circulation of the Wycliffite translation of the Bible and other heretical Wycliffite (Lollard) writings; Love's translation in fact includes a number of major additions to the original Latin text, arguing specifically against the positions of John Wycliffe and his followers on, e.g., the Church hierarchy, almsgiving, and the sacraments of Penance and the Eucharist.
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