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Book SynopsisThese papers are the proceedings of the third international Exeter symposium, and promote an interdisciplinary approach to the understanding of the medieval mystical tradition in England. This is an area of study which does not fruitfully lend itself to any single academic discipline in isolation; here, theologians, historians, literary crtitics, textual scholars, those engaged in the study of semiotics and those involved in the practice of psychiatric medicine exchange ideas and explore together the differing aspects which engage them in this field of study. CONTRIBUTORS: R. BRADLEY, R. ALLEN, R. COPELAND, M. MOYES, J. HOGG, F. WOHRER, A. BALDWIN, S. DICKMAN, D. WALLACE
Table of ContentsForeword - Marion Glasscoe The Speculum Image in Medieval Mystical Writers - Ritamary Bradley 'Singuler Lufe': Richard Rolle and the Grammar of Spiritual Ascent - R. S. Allen Richard Rolle and the Rhetorical Theory of the Levels of Style - The Manuscripts and Early Printed Editions of Richard Rolle's Expositio Super Novem Lectiones Mortuorum - Malcolm Moyes The Latin Cloud - James Hogg An Approach to the Mystographical Treatises of the Cloud-Author through Carl Albrecht's 'Psychology of Mystical Consciousness' - Franz Wohrer The Tripartite Reformation of the Soul in The Scale of Perfection, Pearl and Piers Plowman - A Baldwin Margery Kempe and the Continental Tradition of the Pious Woman - Susan Dickman Mystics and Followers in Siena and East Anglia: A Study in Taxonomy, Class and Cultural Mediation - David Wallace
