Richard Rolle and the invention of authority / Nicholas Watson

Watson, Nicholas

ISBN 10: 0521390176 / ISBN 13: 9780521390170

Published by Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1991

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Fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; xiv, 358 pages. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (p. 336-350) and index. Contents; 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: 1) 'Seeing into heaven': commentaries and Canticum Amoris -- Part III: 5. Contemplative life 2) Fervor: Incendium Amoris -- 6. Contemplative life 3) Dulcor: Super Psalmum Vicesimum, Super Canticum, Canticorum, Contra Amatores Mundi -- 7. Contemplative life -- 4) Canor: Melos Amoris Part IV: 8. 'Mixed' life 1): Super Lectiones Mortuorum and Emendatio Vitae -- 9. 'Mixed' life 2): 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 of manuscripts and works cited. Subjects; Rolle, Richard 1290?-1349 Authorship. Rolle, Richard. Rolle, Richard of Hampole. To 1500. Devotional literature, English (Middle) History and criticism. Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern) England History and criticism. Mysticism England History Middle Ages, 600-1500. Invention (Rhetoric) History To 1500. 1 Kg.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Richard Rolle and the invention of authority / Nicholas Watson
• Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521390176
• ISBN 13: 9780521390170
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st edition.
• Weight: 1 kilogram

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Synopsis

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.

Book Description

This 1991 book is a literary study of Richard Rolle, one of the most widely read English writers of the late Middle Ages. Nicholas Watson proposes a chronology of Rolle's Latin and English writings and offers a literary analyses of a number of his works, showing how they focus principally on the establishment of his own spiritual authority.