The Medieval Mystical Tradition in England, Ireland and Wales

Papers Read at Charney Manor, July 1999 [Exeter Symposium VI]
6th Auflage
ISBN: 978-0-85991-558-8
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer

Buch, Englisch, Band 6, 276 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 567 g

Reihe: Medieval Mystical Tradition

Interdisciplinary studies on medieval mystics and their cultural background.

Contemplative life in the middle ages has been the focus of much recent critical attention. The Symposium papers collected in this volume illuminate the mystical tradition through examination of written texts and material culturein the medieval period. A particular focus is on Celtic modes of witnessing to comtemplative vision from Ireland and Wales: an eighth-century account of voyages to wonders beyond the known world of Irish monasticism, and the workof Christian bards in medieval Wales. Distinctions within the mystical tradition in England are also explored both within differing Religious Orders and bewtween individuals engaged with the contemplative life.

Dr MARION GLASSCOE teaches in the School of English and American Studies at the University of Exeter.

Contributors: THOMAS O'LOUGHLIN, OLIVER DAVIES, R. IESTYN DANIEL, RUTH SMITH, VALERIE EDDEN, DENISE N. BAKER, DENIS RENEVEY, E.A. JONES, RICHARD LAWES, NAOE KUKITA YOSHIKAWA, C. ANNETTE GRISE, JAMES HOGG

Autoren/Hrsg.

Glasscoe, Marion

Weitere Mitwirkende

Grise, C Annette

Renevey, Denis

Baker, Denise N

Jones, E A

Daniel, Iestyn

Hogg, James

Yoshikawa, Naoë Kukita

Davies, Oliver

Lawes, Richard

Smith, Ruth

O'Loughlin, Thomas

Edden, Valerie

Gillespie, Vincent

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Praktische Theologie Christliche Spiritualität, Christliche Mystik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Distant Islands: The Topography of Holiness in the 'Nauigatio Sancti Brendani' - Thomas O'Loughlin
Rhetoric of the Gift: Inspiration, Pneumatology and Poetic Craft in Medieval Wales - Oliver Davies
Medieval Mysticism: An Example from Wales - Iestyn Daniel
Cistercian and Victorine Approaches to Contemplation: Understandings of Self in 'A Rule of Life for a Recluse' and 'The Twelve Patriarchs'Twelve Patriarchs' - Ruth Smith
The Mantle of Elijah: Carmelite Spirituality in England in the Fourteenth Century - Valerie Edden
The Active and Contemplative Lives in Rolle, the 'Cloud'-Author and Hilton - Denise N Baker
Name Above Names: The Devotion to the Name of Jesu from Richard Rolle to Walter Hilton's 'Scale of Perfection I' - Denis Renevey
A New Look into the 'Speculum Inclusorum' - E A Jones
The Madness of Margery Kempe - Richard Lawes
The Role of the Virgin Mary and the Structure of Meditation in the 'Book of Margery Kempe' - Naoe Kukita Yoshikawa
'In the Blessed Vyneyerd of Oure Holy Saueour': Female Religious Readers and Textual Reception in the 'Myroure of Oure Ladye' and 'The Orcherd of Syon''The Orcherd of Syon' - C. Annette Grise
Adam Easton's 'Defensorium Sanctae Birgittae' - James Hogg
Dial M for Mystic: Mystical Texts in the Library of Syon Abbey and the Spirituality of the Syon Brethren - Vincent Gillespie

Über Autor(innen)

Yoshikawa, Naoë Kukita
NAOË KUKITA YOSHIKAWA is Professor Emerita of Medieval English Literature at Shizuoka University, and Research Fellow at the Center for Medieval English Literary Text Studies, Meiji University, Japan.

Jones, E A
E.A. JONES is Professor of English Medieval Literature and Culture in the Department of English at the University of Exeter.