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This 1991 book is a 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 chronology of Rolle's writings, and offers a 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 an alternative 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.

Old English literature --- Christian spirituality --- Rolle, Richard --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature --- Devotional literature, English (Middle) --- Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern) --- Mysticism --- Invention (Rhetoric) --- History and criticism. --- History --- Rolle, Richard, --- Authorship. --- Rhetoric --- Ermyte, Richard, --- Richard Ermyte, --- Hampole, Richard Rolle of, --- Rolle of Hampole, Richard, --- Rolle de Hampole, Richard, --- Richard Rolle, --- ROLLE (RICHARD) --- DEVOTIONAL LITERATURE --- MIDDLE ENGLISH --- AUTHORITY IN LITERATURE --- MYSTICISM --- ENGLAND

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Mystical writing flourished between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries across Europe and in England, and had a wide influence on religion and spirituality. This volume examines a range of topics within the field. The five "Middle English Mystics" (Richard Rolle, Walter Hilton, the author of The Cloud of Unknowing, Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe) receive renewed attention, with significant new insights generated by fresh theoretical approaches. In addition, there are studies of the relationships between continental and English mystical authors, introductions to some less well-known writers in the tradition (such as the Monk of Farne), and explorations around the fringes of the mystical canon, including Middle English translations of Boethius, Lollard spirituality, and the Syon brother Richard Whytford's writings for a sixteenth-century "mixed life" audience. E. A. Jones is Senior Lecturer in English Medieval Literature and Culture at the University of Exeter. Contributors: Christine Cooper-Rompato, Vincent Gillespie, C. Annette Grisé, Ian Johnson, Sarah Macmillan, Liz Herbert McAvoy, Nicole R. Rice, Maggie Ross, Steven Rozenski Jr, David Russell, Michael G. Sargent, Christiana Whitehead.

Mysticism --- Dark night of the soul --- Mystical theology --- Theology, Mystical --- Spiritual life --- Negative theology --- History --- Continental and English Mystical Authors. --- England. --- Julian of Norwich. --- Lollard Spirituality. --- Margery Kempe. --- Medieval Mystical Writing. --- Middle English Mystics. --- Richard Rolle. --- Syon Brother Richard Whytford. --- The Cloud of Unknowing. --- Walter Hilton.