Richard Rolle: Unprinted Latin Writings: Super Canticum Canticorum - Super Magnificat - De Vita Activa et Contemplativa- Viridarium, vel De Misericordia Dei

Hanna, Ralph (Editor)

ISBN 10: 1789620236 / ISBN 13: 9781789620238

Published by Liverpool Univ Pr, 2019

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261 pages. 9.25x6.00x0.75 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Richard Rolle: Unprinted Latin Writings: Super Canticum Canticorum - Super Magnificat - De Vita Activa et Contemplativa- Viridarium, vel De Misericordia Dei
• Publisher: Liverpool Univ Pr
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1789620236
• ISBN 13: 9781789620238
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.56 kilograms

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Synopsis

Although Richard Rolle, hermit of Hampole, was perhaps the most influential spiritual author of the later English Middle Ages, the coming of print was not kind to him. Although a large collected Latin Opera appeared in the 1530s, it was scarcely exhaustive, and a number of the texts
there included, notably Rolle's Latin Psalter commentary, have not been critically examined since. This volume partially redresses this silence by providing a sequence of four Latin texts that have remained in manuscript. Central to Rolle's oeuvre (and to this volume) is Rolle's meditative reading of the first three verses of The Song of Songs, 'Super Canticum'. Also included are two relatively brief unedited texts, 'Super Magnificat' and 'De vita activa et contemplativa'. In addition, the volume reassesses the universal manuscript ascription to Rolle of 'Viridarium, vel De misericordia Dei'; although the work is here reascribed, there is also an edition of selected passages. Unprinted Latin Writings also includes an introduction, critical and textual, some textual annotation, a description of all those previously undescribed manuscripts used here, and an index of the medieval sources cited.

About the Author

Ralph Hanna is Professor of Palaeography (Emeritus) and Emeritus Fellow at Keble College, Oxford. He is a former Guggenheim Fellow, former Fellow of the Radcliffe Institute (Harvard University), and winner of the British Academy Sir Israel Gollancz Prize for English Language 2015. His many books with Liverpool University Press include John Ridewall, Fulgentius metaforalis (2023), Looking at Medieval Books: Learning to See (2023), Robert Holcot, exegete (2021) and Malachy the Irishman, On Poison (2020).