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The secret within : hermits, recluses, and spiritual outsiders in medieval England / Wolfgang Riehle ; translated by Charity Scott-Stokes.
LIBRA BV5077.E54 R5413 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Riehle, Wolfgang, 1937- author.
- Standardized Title:
- Englische Mystik des Mittelalters. English
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Mysticism--England--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500.
- Mysticism.
- England.
- History.
- English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Christian literature, English (Middle)--History and criticism.
- Christian literature, English (Middle).
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 427 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2014.
- Contents:
- The development of eremitical mysticism in the British Isles
- Early Cistercian theology in England
- Ancrene wisse : a magnificent exemplar of early English mysticism
- "Female" versus "male" spirituality : a talking of the love of God and the meditations of the Monk of Farne
- Richard Rolle of Hampole : England's first great mystic
- Marguerite Porete's Mirror of simple souls and its reception in England
- The cloud of unknowing and related tracts
- Walter Hilton : England's mystic theologian
- The singular vision of Julian of Norwich
- Margery Kempe : the shocking "fool in Christ"
- Some aspects of popularizing mysticism in late medieval England.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780801451096
- 0801451094
- OCLC:
- 853113864
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