This is a literary study of the career of Richard Rolle (d. 1349), a Yorkshire hermit and mystic who was one of the most widely read English writers of the late Middle Ages. Nicholas Watson proposes a chronology of Rolle's writings, and offers a literary analyses of a number of his works. He shows how Rolle's career, as a writer of passionate religious works in Latin and later in English, has as its principal focus the establishment of his own spiritual authority. The book also addresses wider issues, suggesting an alternative way of looking at mystical writing in general and challenging the…mehr
This is a literary study of the career of Richard Rolle (d. 1349), a Yorkshire hermit and mystic who was one of the most widely read English writers of the late Middle Ages. Nicholas Watson proposes a chronology of Rolle's writings, and offers a literary analyses of a number of his works. He shows how Rolle's career, as a writer of passionate religious works in Latin and later in English, has as its principal focus the establishment of his own spiritual authority. The book also addresses wider issues, suggesting an alternative way of looking at mystical writing in general and challenging the prevailing view of the relationship between medieval and renaissance attitudes to authors and authority.
Preface List of abbreviations Introduction - contexts: three preliminary essays Part I: 1. Interpreting Rolle's life 2. The structure of Rolle's thought Part II: 3. Active life: Judica me as apologetic pastoral 4. Contemplative life, 'Seeing into Heaven': commentaries and Canticum amoris Part III: 5. Contemplative life, Fervor: Incendium amoris 6. Contemplative life, Dulcor: super psalmum vicesimum, Super canticum canticorum, Contra amatores mundi 7. Contemplative life, Canor: melos amoris Part IV: 8. 'Mixed' life: Super lectiones mortuorum and Emendatio vitae 9. 'Mixed' life: the English works Epilogue: Rolle as a late medieval Auctor Excursus I: the chronology of Rolle's writings Excursus II: Rolle's reading and the reliability of the Officium Notes Bibliography Index.
Preface List of abbreviations Introduction - contexts: three preliminary essays Part I: 1. Interpreting Rolle's life 2. The structure of Rolle's thought Part II: 3. Active life: Judica me as apologetic pastoral 4. Contemplative life, 'Seeing into Heaven': commentaries and Canticum amoris Part III: 5. Contemplative life, Fervor: Incendium amoris 6. Contemplative life, Dulcor: super psalmum vicesimum, Super canticum canticorum, Contra amatores mundi 7. Contemplative life, Canor: melos amoris Part IV: 8. 'Mixed' life: Super lectiones mortuorum and Emendatio vitae 9. 'Mixed' life: the English works Epilogue: Rolle as a late medieval Auctor Excursus I: the chronology of Rolle's writings Excursus II: Rolle's reading and the reliability of the Officium Notes Bibliography Index.
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