The Secret Within
Subtitle: Hermits, Recluses, and Spiritual Outsiders in Medieval England
By: Wolfgang Riehle ; Translated by Charity Scott-Stokes
Contributors: Scott-Stokes, Charity translator
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 427
ISBN-13: 9780801451096
Subjects: Mysticism; English literature; Christian literature, English (Middle); History and criticism; History
Work titles: Englische Mystik des Mittelalters
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 389-413) and index.
Table of contents: title: The development of eremitical mysticism in the British Isles; title: Early Cistercian theology in England; title: Ancrene wisse : a magnificent exemplar of early English mysticism; title: "Female" versus "male" spirituality : a talking of the love of God and the meditations of the Monk of Farne; title: Richard Rolle of Hampole : England's first great mystic; title: Marguerite Porete's Mirror of simple souls and its reception in England; title: The cloud of unknowing and related tracts; title: Walter Hilton : England's mystic theologian; title: The singular vision of Julian of Norwich; title: Margery Kempe : the shocking "fool in Christ"; title: Some aspects of popularizing mysticism in late medieval England.