The secret within : : hermits, recluses, and spiritual outsiders in medieval England / / Wolfgang Riehle ; translated by Charity Scott-Stokes.

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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca : : Cornell University Press,, 2014.
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (448 pages) :; illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • The development of eremitical mysticism in the British Isles
  • Early Cistercian theology in England
  • Ancrene wisse : a magnificent exemplar of early English mysticism
  • "Female" versus "male" spirituality : a talking of the love of God and the meditations of the Monk of Farne
  • Richard Rolle of Hampole : England's first great mystic
  • Marguerite Porete's Mirror of simple souls and its reception in England
  • The cloud of unknowing and related tracts
  • Walter Hilton : England's mystic theologian
  • The singular vision of Julian of Norwich
  • Margery Kempe : the shocking "fool in Christ"
  • Some aspects of popularizing mysticism in late medieval England.