Richard Rolle and the invention of authority / Nicholas Watson
1991, 1st edition. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. Fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #426782
ISBN: 0521390176
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.
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