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Rolle --- Richard --- of Hampole --- 1290?-1349

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Authors, English --- Rolle, Richard, - of Hampole, - 1290?-1349

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Old English literature --- Christian literature, English (Middle) --- Manuscripts, English (Middle) --- Rolle, Richard, --- Manuscripts --- 091 ROLLE VAN HAMPOLE, RICHARD --- 091 =20 --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--ROLLE VAN HAMPOLE, RICHARD --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Engels --- 091 =20 Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Engels --- 091 ROLLE VAN HAMPOLE, RICHARD Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--ROLLE VAN HAMPOLE, RICHARD --- Christian literature, English (Middle). --- Manuscripts, English (Middle). --- English manuscripts (Middle) --- Manuscripts, Middle English --- Middle English manuscripts --- Christian literature, English --- Christian literature, Middle English --- English Christian literature, Middle --- Middle English Christian literature --- English literature --- Ermyte, Richard, --- Richard Ermyte, --- Hampole, Richard Rolle of, --- Rolle of Hampole, Richard, --- Rolle de Hampole, Richard, --- Richard Rolle, --- Manuscripts. --- Rolle, Richard, - of Hampole, - 1290?-1349 - Manuscripts --- Rolle, Richard, - of Hampole, - 1290?-1349

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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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Richard Rolle, the 'hermit of Hampole', wrote an extensive body of religious literature that was widely disseminated in late medieval England; but although many of his works have received substantial editorial attention, they have as yet attracted only limited detailed critical analysis, with scholarship largely focused on establishing facts about his life and striking character. This study aims to correct this imbalance by re-examining his English prose works - 'Ego Dormio, The Commandment' and 'The Form of Living' - in terms of their literary form, content and appeal rather than their relationship to Rolle's biography. The author argues that in these devotional works (which appealed to a broad readership in late medieval England) Rolle successfully refines traditional affective strategies to develop an implied reader-identity, the individual soul seeking the love of God, which empowers each and every reader in his or her own spiritual journey. CLARE ELIZABETH MCILROY teaches at the University of Western Australia.

Christianity and literature --- Christian literature, English (Middle) --- Mysticism --- English language --- Mysticism in literature. --- History --- History and criticism. --- Style. --- Rolle, Richard, --- Ermyte, Richard, --- Richard Ermyte, --- Hampole, Richard Rolle of, --- Rolle of Hampole, Richard, --- Rolle de Hampole, Richard, --- Richard Rolle, --- Prose. --- Germanic languages --- Rolle, Richard