E A Jones 
The Medieval Mystical Tradition in England 
Papers read at Charney Manor, July 2011 [Exeter Symposium 8]

The series has from the beginning been instrumental in sustaining this field of study. JOURNAL OF ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY


Mystical writing flourished between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries across Europe and in England, and had a wide influence on religion and spirituality. This volume examines a range of topics within the field. The five ‘Middle English Mystics’ (Richard Rolle, Walter Hilton, the author of
The Cloud of Unknowing, Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe) receive renewed attention, with significant new insights generated by fresh theoretical approaches. In addition, there are studies of the relationships between continental and English mystical authors, introductions to some less well-known writers in the tradition (such as the Monk of Farne), and explorations around the fringes of the mystical canon, including Middle English translations of Boethius, Lollard spirituality, and the Syon brother Richard Whytford’s writings for a sixteenth-century ‘mixed life’ audience.


E. A. Jones is Senior Lecturer in English Medieval Literature and Culture at the University of Exeter.


Contributors: Christine Cooper-Rompato, Vincent Gillespie, C. Annette Grisé, Ian Johnson, Sarah Macmillan, Liz Herbert Mc Avoy, Nicole R. Rice, Maggie Ross, Steven Rozenski Jr, David Russell, Michael G. Sargent, Christiana Whitehead.

विषयसूची

Introduction – E.A. Jones

The Colours of Contemplation: Less Light on Julian of Norwich – Vincent Gillespie

Behold Not the Cloud of Experience – Maggie Ross

Walter Hilton on the Gift of Interpretation of Scripture – Michael G. Sargent

Numeracy and Number in
The Book of Margery Kempe – Christine Cooper-Rompato

Religious Mystical Mothers: Margery Kempe and Caterina Benincasa – David Russell

Authority and Exemplarity in Henry Suso and Richard Rolle – Steven Rozenski

Mortifying the Mind: Asceticism, Mysticism and Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Douce 114 – Sarah Macmillan

The
Meditaciones of the Monk of Farne – Christiania Whitehead

Envisioning Reform:
A Revelation Of Purgatory and Anchoritic
Compassioun in the Later Middle Ages – Liz Herbert Mc Avoy

Walton’s Heavenly
Boece and the Devout Translation of Transcendence:
O Qui Perpetua Pietised – Ian Johnson

Reformist Devotional Reading: The
Pore Caitif in British Library, MS Harley 2322 – Nicole R. Rice

Richard Whytford,
The Golden Epistle, and the Mixed Life Audience – C. Annette Grise