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The secret within: hermits, recluses, and spiritual outsiders in medieval England

By Riehle , Charity , Wolfgang;Scott-Stokes

Book information

Publisher
Cornell University Press
Year
2016
ISBN
9780801451096, 9780801470936, 0801470935
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3251299 bytes)
Pages
illustrations (black and white)\449
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
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Description

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 to 'The Cloud of Unknowing', Walter Hilton, Margery Kempe, and Julian of Norwich.

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