{"product_id":"richard-rolle-and-the-invention-of-authority-hardback-9780521390170","title":"Richard Rolle and the Invention of Authority (Hardback) 9780521390170","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eRichard Rolle and the Invention of Authority\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA 1991 literary study of Richard Rolle, one of the most widely read English writers of the late Middle Ages.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eNicholas Watson (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521390170, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 7 November 1991\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e374 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.72 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"...the most substantial assessment of Rolle and his importance since Hope Emily Allen's monumental Writings Ascribed to Richard Rolle, Hermit of Hampole, and Materials for His Biography, published in 1927. It is a meticulous study of Rolle's works, emphasizing the Latin ones, as evidence for an emerging authorial persona that could reconcile Rolle's conflicting apologetic and didactic aims....[T]hose who stick with it will be impressed by a lively intelligence engaged on an elusive subject, who in his writings tended to speak through the veiled language of Scripture rather than directly.  Watson and his publishers are to be praised for the abundance and length of the Latin quotations (with good translations) allowed into the book....Except for Hope Emily Allen, no one to date has devoted so much serious attention to Rolle's style.  The reader who perseveres with Watson will arrive at a new respect for Rolle's career....\"   Michael P. Kuczynski, Speculum\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e List of abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e Introduction - contexts: three preliminary essays\u003cbr\u003e Part I: 1.  Interpreting Rolle's life\u003cbr\u003e 2. The structure of Rolle's thought\u003cbr\u003e Part II: 3. Active life: Judica me as apologetic pastoral\u003cbr\u003e 4. Contemplative life, 'Seeing into Heaven': commentaries and Canticum amoris\u003cbr\u003e Part III: 5. Contemplative life, Fervor: Incendium amoris\u003cbr\u003e 6. Contemplative life, Dulcor: super psalmum vicesimum, Super canticum canticorum, Contra amatores mundi\u003cbr\u003e 7. Contemplative life, Canor: melos amoris\u003cbr\u003e Part IV: 8. 'Mixed' life: Super lectiones mortuorum and Emendatio vitae\u003cbr\u003e 9. 'Mixed' life: the English works\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: Rolle as a late medieval Auctor\u003cbr\u003e Excursus I: the chronology of Rolle's writings\u003cbr\u003e Excursus II: Rolle's reading and the reliability of the Officium\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: classical, early \u0026amp; medieval [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: classical, early \u0026amp; medieval\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20classical,%20early%20\u0026amp;%20medieval%20%5BDSBB%5D%22\"\u003eDSBB\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46007215325464,"sku":"9780521390170","price":92.97,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521390170i_4d7d5956-ec9b-4415-94e7-de7ad2903fbd.jpg?v=1691376245","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/richard-rolle-and-the-invention-of-authority-hardback-9780521390170","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}