Author: Barry A. Windeatt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521327407
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
First collection of late medieval English mystical writing, which has been newly edited with notes and glossary.
English Mystics of the Middle Ages
Author: Barry A. Windeatt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521327407
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
First collection of late medieval English mystical writing, which has been newly edited with notes and glossary.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521327407
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
First collection of late medieval English mystical writing, which has been newly edited with notes and glossary.
The Middle English Mystics
Author: Wolfgang Riehle
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429560532
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Originally published as an English translation in 1981, The Middle English Mystics is a crucial contribution to the study of the literature of English mysticism. This book surveys and analyses the language of metaphor in the writings of such mystics as Richard Rolle, Walter Hilton, Julian of Norwich, and in such anonymous works as The Cloud of Unknowing and the Ancrene Wisse. The main emphasis of this comparative and stylistic study is not theological but rather the means by which theological concepts are communicated through language. The book sets the English mystics in perspective by establishing their place in the European mystical movement of the Middle Ages. It shows how intricate the relationship between English, and continental mysticism really is. The book suggests that there is clear links between English and German female mysticism, yet the mysticism is in the main due not so much to specific influences as to the common background of Christian theology and mysticism.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429560532
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Originally published as an English translation in 1981, The Middle English Mystics is a crucial contribution to the study of the literature of English mysticism. This book surveys and analyses the language of metaphor in the writings of such mystics as Richard Rolle, Walter Hilton, Julian of Norwich, and in such anonymous works as The Cloud of Unknowing and the Ancrene Wisse. The main emphasis of this comparative and stylistic study is not theological but rather the means by which theological concepts are communicated through language. The book sets the English mystics in perspective by establishing their place in the European mystical movement of the Middle Ages. It shows how intricate the relationship between English, and continental mysticism really is. The book suggests that there is clear links between English and German female mysticism, yet the mysticism is in the main due not so much to specific influences as to the common background of Christian theology and mysticism.
The English Mystics
Author: David Knowles
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mysticism
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mysticism
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
English Mystics
Author: Geraldine Emma Hodgson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mysticism
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mysticism
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
The Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature
Author: David Wallace
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521890465
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1060
Book Description
This was the first full-scale history of medieval English literature for nearly a century. Thirty-three distinguished contributors offer a collaborative account of literature composed or transmitted in England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland between the Norman conquest and the death of Henry VIII in 1547. The volume has five sections: 'After the Norman Conquest'; 'Writing in the British Isles'; 'Institutional Productions'; 'After the Black Death' and 'Before the Reformation'. It provides information on a vast range of literary texts and the conditions of their production and reception, which will serve both specialists and general readers, and also contains a chronology, full bibliography and a detailed index. This book offers an extensive and vibrant account of the medieval literatures so drastically reconfigured in Tudor England. It will thus prove essential reading for scholars of the Renaissance as well as medievalists, and for historians as well as literary specialists.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521890465
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1060
Book Description
This was the first full-scale history of medieval English literature for nearly a century. Thirty-three distinguished contributors offer a collaborative account of literature composed or transmitted in England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland between the Norman conquest and the death of Henry VIII in 1547. The volume has five sections: 'After the Norman Conquest'; 'Writing in the British Isles'; 'Institutional Productions'; 'After the Black Death' and 'Before the Reformation'. It provides information on a vast range of literary texts and the conditions of their production and reception, which will serve both specialists and general readers, and also contains a chronology, full bibliography and a detailed index. This book offers an extensive and vibrant account of the medieval literatures so drastically reconfigured in Tudor England. It will thus prove essential reading for scholars of the Renaissance as well as medievalists, and for historians as well as literary specialists.
The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Mysticism
Author: Samuel Fanous
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139827669
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
The widespread view that 'mystical' activity in the Middle Ages was a rarefied enterprise of a privileged spiritual elite has led to isolation of the medieval 'mystics' into a separate, narrowly defined category. Taking the opposite view, this book shows how individual mystical experience, such as those recorded by Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe, is rooted in, nourished and framed by the richly distinctive spiritual contexts of the period. Arranged by sections corresponding to historical developments, it explores the primary vernacular texts, their authors, and the contexts that formed the expression and exploration of mystical experiences in medieval England. This is an excellent, insightful introduction to medieval English mystical texts, their authors, readers and communities. Featuring a guide to further reading and a chronology, the Companion offers an accessible overview for students of literature, history and theology.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139827669
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
The widespread view that 'mystical' activity in the Middle Ages was a rarefied enterprise of a privileged spiritual elite has led to isolation of the medieval 'mystics' into a separate, narrowly defined category. Taking the opposite view, this book shows how individual mystical experience, such as those recorded by Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe, is rooted in, nourished and framed by the richly distinctive spiritual contexts of the period. Arranged by sections corresponding to historical developments, it explores the primary vernacular texts, their authors, and the contexts that formed the expression and exploration of mystical experiences in medieval England. This is an excellent, insightful introduction to medieval English mystical texts, their authors, readers and communities. Featuring a guide to further reading and a chronology, the Companion offers an accessible overview for students of literature, history and theology.
The Scale of Perfection
Author: Walter Hilton
Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications
ISBN: 1580443931
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Walter Hilton's The Scale of Perfection maintains a secure place among the major religious treatises composed in fourteenth-century England. This guide to the contemplative life, written in two books of more than 40,000 words each, is notable for its careful explorations of its religious themes and also as a monument of Middle English prose. Its popularity is attested by the fact that some forty-two manuscripts containing one or both of the books survive, with a relatively large number of manuscipts with Book I alone, which suggests it may have been the more popular of the two. Hilton (born c. 1343) was a member of the religious order known as the Augustinian Canons. There is reason to believe that be was trained in canon law and studied at the University of Cambridge. He was the author of a number of works in English and Latin, all much shorter than The Scale. He died at the Augustinian Priory of Thurgarton in Nottinghamshire in 1396. On the basis of the content of certain of his works it can be safely inferred that he was actively involved in some of the religious controversies current in England in the 1380s and 1390s, and his principal concern, evident in The Scale , is to defend orthodox belief, especially in the conduct of the contemplative life.
Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications
ISBN: 1580443931
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Walter Hilton's The Scale of Perfection maintains a secure place among the major religious treatises composed in fourteenth-century England. This guide to the contemplative life, written in two books of more than 40,000 words each, is notable for its careful explorations of its religious themes and also as a monument of Middle English prose. Its popularity is attested by the fact that some forty-two manuscripts containing one or both of the books survive, with a relatively large number of manuscipts with Book I alone, which suggests it may have been the more popular of the two. Hilton (born c. 1343) was a member of the religious order known as the Augustinian Canons. There is reason to believe that be was trained in canon law and studied at the University of Cambridge. He was the author of a number of works in English and Latin, all much shorter than The Scale. He died at the Augustinian Priory of Thurgarton in Nottinghamshire in 1396. On the basis of the content of certain of his works it can be safely inferred that he was actively involved in some of the religious controversies current in England in the 1380s and 1390s, and his principal concern, evident in The Scale , is to defend orthodox belief, especially in the conduct of the contemplative life.
The Art of Accompanying
Author: Phil Daughtry
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780648695783
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
If you have ever been deeply and profoundly listened to you will understand the beautiful gift of being accompanied. The art of accompanying is to become present to the heartbeat and significance of our own stories. To discover and to draw from the wisdom that reveals itself at the centre of experience. To find the spiritual threads, the meanings, the light and the purpose. Our hope is that you will join us in crafting this extraordinary and wonderful practice within yourself and in the world.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780648695783
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
If you have ever been deeply and profoundly listened to you will understand the beautiful gift of being accompanied. The art of accompanying is to become present to the heartbeat and significance of our own stories. To discover and to draw from the wisdom that reveals itself at the centre of experience. To find the spiritual threads, the meanings, the light and the purpose. Our hope is that you will join us in crafting this extraordinary and wonderful practice within yourself and in the world.
God's Lovers in an Age of Anxiety
Author: Joan M. Nuth
Publisher: Medieval English Mystics
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Examines the extraordinary flowering of English spirituality in the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries.
Publisher: Medieval English Mystics
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Examines the extraordinary flowering of English spirituality in the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries.
Mysticism in English Literature
Author: Caroline F. E. Spurgeon
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107401712
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
Beginning with a precise definition of the term mysticism, Spurgeon explores how mystical thought influenced many of England's finest writers.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107401712
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
Beginning with a precise definition of the term mysticism, Spurgeon explores how mystical thought influenced many of England's finest writers.