English Mystics of the Middle Ages (Cambridge English Prose Texts)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 29, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 323
ISBN-13: 9780521339582
Subjects: Language & Literature; World history: c 500 to C 1500; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; British Isles; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Mysticism; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Mysticism--England; Mysticism--England Mysticism--England; Religion : Mysticism
First sentence: Richard Rolle, 'Richard Hermit of Hampole', is the first, easily the most controversial, and probably the most widely influential of the English mystical writers of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.