This 1991 book 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 ...
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This 1991 book 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.
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New. Trade paperback (US). 376 p. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature . Worked examples or Exercises. Intended for college/higher education audience. Intended for professional and scholarly audience.
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Book. Octavo, 358 pages. In Very Good condition. Bound in publisher's brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Minor general shelf wear. Mild foxing to top edge of textblock. Interior pages clean. Shelved in Middle Ages. 1383160. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
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First edition. Studies in Medieval Literature 13. xiv+358 pages with index. Cloth. Fine. No dustjacket issued. This is the first 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 new chronology of Rolle's writings, and offers the first 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 a new 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.
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New. 374 p. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature . Intended for college/higher education audience. Intended for professional and scholarly audience.