Language, Self and Love: Hermeneutics in the Writings of Richard Rolle and the Commentaries on the Song of Songs - Rilegato

Renevey, Denis

 
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Renevey's dissertation argues that self-analysis and the investigation of self through mystic and religious thought and writings is not a modern trend. He shows how 12th-century commentators, such as William of St Thierry and St Bernard of Clairvaux, used the material of the Song of Songs to experiment with a language of love to express `their mystical experiences and the discovery of their own selves'. The second part of the study traces the development of this experimentation in the commentaries of Richard Rolle, a 14th-century hermit.

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Denis Renevey is a lecturer in Medieval Literature at the Universities of Fribourg and Neuchâtel. He is the co-editor of Writing Religious Women: Female Spiritual and Textual Practices in Late Medieval England and the author of numerous articles dealing with medieval mysticism.


Denis Renevey is a lecturer in Medieval Literature at the Universities of Fribourg and Neuchâtel. He is the co-editor of Writing Religious Women: Female Spiritual and Textual Practices in Late Medieval England and the author of numerous articles dealing with medieval mysticism.

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