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Author : Barry A. Windeatt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1994-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521327404
First collection of late medieval English mystical writing, which has been newly edited with notes and glossary.
Author : Wolfgang Riehle
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780429560538
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.
Author : Samuel Fanous,Vincent Gillespie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521853439
This book is an excellent introduction to the individuals, events and currents which shaped medieval English mystical texts.
Author : Paul E. Szarmach
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1985-06-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438421711
The European Middle Ages bequeathed to the world a legacy of spiritual and intellectual brilliance that has shaped many of the ideals, preconceptions, and institutions we now take for granted. An Introduction to the Medieval Mystics of Europe examines this phenomenon in vivid and scholarly accounts of the lives and achievements of those men and women whose genius most inspired their own and subsequent ages. These great mystics explored and consciously realized the relationship between human life and unconditioned transcendence. Representing both the contemplative and scholastic traditions, the mystics in these studies often found their solutions to ultimate questions in radically different ways. Some of them, such as Eckhart, Aquinas, and Cusa, may already be familiar, and here the reader will benefit from a new approach and summary of extensive research. Others, such as Smaragdus and several of the women mystics, are little known even to specialists. Finally, and unusually for a study of European mysticism, the influence of Spanish Kabbalists is discussed in relation to the Zohar and two figures from the mystical school of Safed, Cordovero and Luria. Though the essays focus on individuals, the cultural and social implications of their lives and work are never ignored, for the mystic way did not exist separately from the rest of medieval life; it functioned as an integral part of the whole, influencing the development of Christian and Jewish religions in both their internal and external forms.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Mysticism
ISBN : 1139801252
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.
Author : David Wallace
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1060 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2002-04-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521890462
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.
Author : Dee Dyas,Valerie Edden,Roger Ellis
Publisher : DS Brewer
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Education
ISBN : 1843840499
Essays suggesting new ways of studying the crucial but sometimes difficult range of medieval mystical material. This volume seeks to explore the origins, context and content of the anchoritic and mystical texts produced in England during the Middle Ages and to examine the ways in which these texts may be studied and taught today. It foregrounds issues of context and interaction, seeking both to position medieval spiritual writings against a surprisingly wide range of contemporary contexts and to face the challenge of making these texts accessible to a wider readership. The contributions, by leading scholars in the field, incorporate historical, literary and theological perspectives and offer critical approaches and background material which will inform both research and teaching. The approaches to Middle English anchoritic and mystical texts suggested in this volume are many and varied. In this they reflect the richness and complexity of the contexts from which these writings emerged. These essays are offered aspart of an ongoing exploration of aspects of medieval spirituality which, while posing a considerable challenge to modern readers, also offer invaluable insights into the interaction between medieval culture and belief. Contributors: E.A. Jones, Dee Dyas, Valerie Edden, Santha Bhattachariji, Denis Renevey, A.C. Spearing, Thomas Bestul, Liz Herbert McAvoy, Barry A. Windeatt, Alexandra Barratt, R.S. Allen, Roger Ellis, Ann M. Hutchison, Marion Glasscoe, Catherine Innes-Parker
Author : Wolfgang Riehle
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801470929
Spiritual seekers throughout history have sought illumination through solitary contemplation. In the Christian tradition, medieval England stands out for its remarkable array of hermits, recluses, and spiritual outsiders—from Cuthbert, Godric of Fichale, and Christina of Markyate to Richard Rolle, Julian of Norwich, and Margery Kempe. In The Secret Within, Wolfgang Riehle offers the first comprehensive history of English medieval mysticism in decades—one that will appeal to anyone fascinated by mysticism as a phenomenon of religious life. In considering the origins and evolution of the English mystical tradition, Riehle begins in the twelfth century with the revival of eremitical mysticism and the early growth of the Cistercian Order in the British Isles. He then focuses in depth on the great mystics of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries—Richard Rolle (the first great English mystic), the author of The Cloud of Unknowing, Walter Hilton, Margery Kempe, and Julian of Norwich. Riehle carefully grounds his narrative in the broader spiritual landscape of the Middle Ages, pointing out both prior influences dating back to Late Antiquity and corresponding developments in mysticism and theology on the Continent. He discusses the problem of possible differences between male and female spirituality and the movement of popularizing mysticism in the late Middle Ages. Filled with fresh insights, The Secret Within will be welcomed especially by teachers and students of medieval literature as well as by those engaged in historical, theological, philosophical, cultural, even anthropological and comparative studies of mysticism.
Author : Gordon C. Miller
Publisher : Continuum
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1996-01-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0860122093
A distinctive feature of Western religous life in recent years has been the rediscovery of the contemplative tradition in Christianity. Within the Christian mystical tradition, England holds a unique place, with a number of major figures from the Middle Ages and later whose writings have fascinated generations of readers. This book presents seven of them, five from the medieval period, the golden age of English mysticism - Richard Rolle, Walter Hilton, the author of The Cloud of Unknowing, Julian of Norwich, and Margery Kempe; and two from later centuries - William Law and George Herbert. Each chapter consists of an introductory essay on the life and writings of each individual, followed by carefully chosen extracts from their writings. Those from the medieval period are in fresh new translations. All these writers see the spiritual life as an ongoing process, a pilgrimage. This inner pigrimage requires no outer excursions, but throughout the ages spiritual pilgrims have undertaken physical pilgrimages as well. One aim of this book is to encourage its readers to continue this tradition by visiting sites from which the writings arose. So each chapter is provided with a map of the area of immediate interest and a drawing of the place most associated with each figure, and the introductory essays contain practical information about how to get there. No other anthology of mystical and spiritual writings describes the lives and locations of these individuals in this way. Gordon L. Miller, Ph.D., is a writer and historian living near Seattle, Washington. He attended Milligan College and Christian Theological Seminary. This book developed from a period of post-graduate study at Cambridge University , when he visited the sites described in the book, a journey which, he says, "made the historical grounding of the English mystical tradition much more real to me". He is also the author of Wisdom of the Earth: Visions of an Ecological Faith.
Author : Joan M. Nuth
Publisher : Medieval English Mystics
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110945883
Examines the extraordinary flowering of English spirituality in the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries.
Author : William Ralph Inge
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1935-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781465540911
Author : Paul de Jaegher
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780486145563
Inspirational compilation of classic essays includes meditations by the author of The Cloud of Unknowing, Catherine of Siena, Walter Hilton, St. Teresa, St. John of the Cross, St. Francis de Sales, and others.
Author : Barry A. Windeatt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1180810665
Author : Gordon L. Miller
Publisher : Morehouse Publishing Company
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Mysticism
ISBN : 0819216755
Author : Marion Glasscoe
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : STANFORD:36105003417214
