The secret within : hermits, recluses, and spiritual outsiders in medieval England / Wolfgang Riehle ; translated by Charity Scott-Stokes.
Language: English Original language: German Publisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2014Description: 1 online resource (448 pages) : illustrationsContent type:- text
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- 9780801451096 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780801470936 (e-book)
- Englische Mystik des Mittelalters. English
- 248.2/209420902 23
- BV5077.E54 R5413 2014eb
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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