English Mystics of the Middle Ages Paperback / softback
Edited by Barry (Emmanuel College, Cambridge) Windeatt
Part of the Cambridge English Prose Texts series
Paperback / softback
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This edition brings together for the first time key texts representing the writings of the medieval English mystics.
The texts have been newly edited from early manuscripts, and are supplemented with textual and explanatory notes and a glossary.
The book focuses on five major authors, Richard Rolle, Walter Hilton, the anonymous author of The Cloud of Unknowing, Dame Julian of Norwich, and Margery Kempe.
Shorter works are presented whole, where possible, and accompanied by extracts from the mystics' longer works; extracts from contemporary translations into English are also included to illustrate the reception of European mystical texts in later medieval England.
Overall, this volume makes accessible some of the finest writing by English contemplatives and visionaries of the Middle Ages.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:324 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:18/01/2007
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- ISBN:9780521339582
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:324 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:18/01/2007
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- ISBN:9780521339582
