The English Manuscripts of Richard Rolle: A Descriptive Catalogue

Ralph Hanna

ISBN 10: 0859898202 / ISBN 13: 9780859898201

Editore: Liverpool University Press, 2010

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Richard Rolle - the Yorkshire hermit, visionary and transmitter of religious counsel - was widely recognised in the later English Middle Ages as a major spiritual author. However, this influential figure poses difficulties for scholars and remains a largely untapped literary resource. Encompassing over one hundred and twenty books, Rolle's work is central to the largely uninvestigated sacred culture of that period and provides scholars with a rich source of insight. Ralph Hanna has collected and catalogued this important body of work following detailed research of the manuscript evidence over two decades. Rolle's status makes it appropriate that he will be the only Middle English author other than Chaucer to have an author-based bibliography. The catalogue describes each of Rolle's books and includes full details of contents and codicology. The book also includes an introduction to Rolle's work explaining its significance, examining the transmission of his writings, and providing a guide to the conventions of presentation used in the catalogue. A series of indexes provides useful additional resources.

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• Titolo: The English Manuscripts of Richard Rolle: A Descriptive Catalogue
• Editore: Liverpool University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0859898202
• ISBN 13: 9780859898201
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Condizione: New

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Richard Rolle (d. 1349)—Yorkshire hermit, religious writer, visionary, and mystical wanderer—was widely recognized in the later English Middle Ages as a major spiritual author. Though still an enigma for most scholars, Rolle was a prolific writer who authored over 120 volumes in his lifetime, many of which are central to our understanding of the sacred culture of his period. This volume assembles the breadth of his writings together for the first time in an author-based bibliography, accompanied by an introduction to the context and significance of his writings, providing invaluable data for Rolle scholars, as well as for others working on medieval religious literature and culture.

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Ralph Hanna is professor of palaeography at the University of Oxford and the author of numerous publications, including most recently, London Literature, 1300–1380.

Ralph Hanna is Professor of Palaeography at the University of Oxford, and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of the University of California, Riverside. He has published on medieval manuscripts, literary culture and Langland.