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Book SynopsisThese papers are the proceedings of the fourth international Exeter Symposium. They promote enquiry into, and understanding of, the medieval mystics and the cultural context to which they belong. Here, historians, literary critics, theologians, philosophers and bibliographical scholars explore ways in which the contemplative tradition was mediated and perceived in the very early and very late medieval period, and ask fundamental questions about the natureof contemporary understanding of this subject. CONTRIBUTORS: GEORGE R. KEISER, SUE ELLEN HOLBROOK, WILLIAM F. POLLARD, JAMES HOGG, SANDRA MCENTIRE, ANNE SAVAGE, PETER DINZELBACHER, NICHOLAS WATSON, PETER MOORE, ROBERT K.FORMAN
Table of ContentsThe Mystics and the Early English Printers: The Economics of Devotionalism - George Keiser Margery Kempe and Wynkyn de Worde - Sue Ellen Holbrook Mystical Elements in a Fifteenth-Century Prayer Sequence: 'The Festis and the Passion of Oure Lord Ihesu Crist' - William F. Pollard Everyday Life in a Contemplative Order in the Fifteenth Century - James Hogg The Doctrine of Compunction from Bede to Margery Kempe - Sandra McEntire The Place of Old English Poetry in the English Meditative Tradition - Anne Savage The Beginnings of Mysticism Experienced in Twelfth-Century England - Peter Dinzelbacher The Methods and Objectives of Thirteenth-Century Anchoritic Devotion - Nicholas Watson Christian Mysticism and Interpretation: Some Philosophical Issues Illustrated in the Study of the Medieval English Mystics - Peter Moore Mystical Experience in The Cloud-Literature - Robert K Forman
