The Vernacular Spirit
Subtitle: Essays on Medieval Religious Literature
Contributors: Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski (Editor); Duncan Robertson (Editor); Nancy Warren (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: June 29, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780312293857
Subjects: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Literary Criticism; Europe; Medieval; Religion / Christianity; Christianity - General; European - General; History; History and criticism; Literature, Medieval; Religion and literature; To 1500
First sentence: Vividly in this epigraph, but also throughout his Latin and Middle English writings, Richard Rolle, self-proclaimed mystic and hermit of fourteenth-century Yorkshire, exploits the interplay of text and identity by rendering the humanity of Christ as a linguistic sign.