The series has from the beginning been instrumental in sustaining this field of study. JOURNAL OF ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY
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.
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 McAvoy and Naoė 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
E.A. JONES is Professor of English Medieval Literature and Culture in the Department of English at the University of Exeter. ANNIE SUTHERLAND is Associate Professor, University of Oxford, and Tutorial Fellow in Old and Middle English, Somerville College. Christiania Whitehead is Privat Docent and senior research fellow at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland JENNIFER N. BROWN is Professor of English and World Literatures at Marymount Manhattan College. LAURA KALAS is Senior Lecturer in Medieval English Literature at Swansea University. LIZ HERBERT MCAVOY FLSW is Professor Emerita of Medieval Literature at Swansea University and Honorary Senior Research Associate at the University of Bristol. NAOĖ KUKITA YOSHIKAWA is Professor Emerita of Medieval English Literature at Shizuoka University, and Research Fellow at the Center for Medieval English Literary Text Studies, Meiji University, Japan.
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