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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      04 December 2009
      07 November 1991
      ISBN:
      9780511597565
      9780521390170
      9780521033152
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511597565
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.67kg, 374 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.565kg, 376 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, Anglo Saxon and Medieval Literature, Religion, Theology
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature (13)
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    Subjects:
    Literature, Anglo Saxon and Medieval Literature, Religion, Theology
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature (13)
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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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    "...the most substantial assessment of Rolle and his importance since Hope Emily Allen's monumental Writings Ascribed to Richard Rolle, Hermit of Hampole, and Materials for His Biography, published in 1927. It is a meticulous study of Rolle's works, emphasizing the Latin ones, as evidence for an emerging authorial persona that could reconcile Rolle's conflicting apologetic and didactic aims....[T]hose who stick with it will be impressed by a lively intelligence engaged on an elusive subject, who in his writings tended to speak through the veiled language of Scripture rather than directly. Watson and his publishers are to be praised for the abundance and length of the Latin quotations (with good translations) allowed into the book....Except for Hope Emily Allen, no one to date has devoted so much serious attention to Rolle's style. The reader who perseveres with Watson will arrive at a new respect for Rolle's career...." Michael P. Kuczynski, Speculum

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