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The rich tradition of pre-modern mystical writing from England is explored in this collection of essays from the ninth Exeter Symposium. The twelve chapters include studies of Richard Rolle, Walter Hilton, Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe and the author of
The Cloud of Unknowing. There is work, too, on less familiar authors and texts, from the thirteenth-century
Wooing Group to the sixteenth-century Carthusian Richard Methley; the English reception of continental mystics such as Bridget of Sweden and Mechthild of Hackeborn; and writers treading (and sometimes crossing) the line between mysticism and heresy. The authors employ a range of approaches, from detailed manuscript study to mystical theology, and from material culture to comparative mysticism.
Chapters 10 and 11 are available as Open Access under the Creative Commons license CC-BY-NC-ND.
Table of Content
Editor’s Preface –
E. A. Jones
On Loving God: Richard Rolle and the Spiritual Classics –
Andrew Kraebel
Richard Rolle and the Heresy of the Free Spirit –
Timothy Glover
Thirteenth-Century Passion Meditation: Embracing Christ in Cotton Nero A. XIV –
Annie Sutherland
The Systems of Chapter Division of Walter Hilton’s
Scale of Perfection, Book I –
Michael G. Sargent
Reflective Moons: Christian and Islamic Traditions in Medieval Europe –
Ayoush Lazikani
Julian of Norwich’s Contemplative Poetics of Nought –
Raphaela Rohrhofer
‘An Hayr in thin Hert’: Hairshirts, Cilices, and
The Book of Margery Kempe – Christine Cooper-Rompato
Compiling Conversations: Women, Textuality and Orality in England in the Later Middle Ages –
Liz Herbert Mc Avoy and Naoë Kukita Yoshikawa
Locating the Omniferous at Helfta –
Laura Kalas
Mirroring
The Cloud in Cambridge, MS Pembroke 221: Richard Methley’s Glosses to the
Divina Caligo Ignorancie and
Speculum Animarum Simplicium – Denis Renevey
The
Cloud-Author and Hendrik Herp: Aspiratory Prayer in MS Douce 262 –
Christiania Whitehead
Mysticism, Misattribution, and the Fifteen Oes –
Jennifer N. Brown
About the author
E.A. JONES is Professor of English Medieval Literature and Culture in the Department of English at the University of Exeter.
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