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The English Manuscripts of Richard Rolle
Ralph Hanna
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Description for The English Manuscripts of Richard Rolle
Hardcover. Describes each of Richard Rolle books and includes details of contents and codicology. This book includes an introduction to his work explaining its significance, examining the transmission of his writings, and providing a guide to the conventions of presentation used in the catalogue. Series: Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies. Num Pages: 320 pages, 8 black & white plates. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3H; DSBB; GBCR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 250 x 188 x 20. Weight in Grams: 978.
Richard Rolle - the Yorkshire hermit, visionary and transmitter of religious counsel - was widely recognised in the later English Middle Ages as a major spiritual author. However, this influential figure poses difficulties for scholars and remains a largely untapped literary resource. Encompassing over one hundred and twenty books, Rolle's work is central to the largely uninvestigated sacred culture of that period and provides scholars with a rich source of insight. Ralph Hanna has collected and catalogued this important body of work following detailed research of the manuscript evidence over two decades. Rolle's status makes it appropriate that he will ... Read more
Richard Rolle - the Yorkshire hermit, visionary and transmitter of religious counsel - was widely recognised in the later English Middle Ages as a major spiritual author. However, this influential figure poses difficulties for scholars and remains a largely untapped literary resource. Encompassing over one hundred and twenty books, Rolle's work is central to the largely uninvestigated sacred culture of that period and provides scholars with a rich source of insight. Ralph Hanna has collected and catalogued this important body of work following detailed research of the manuscript evidence over two decades. Rolle's status makes it appropriate that he will ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Series
Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780859898201
SKU
V9780859898201
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About Ralph Hanna
Ralph Hanna is Professor of Palaeography at the University of Oxford, and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of the University of California, Riverside. He has published on medieval manuscripts, literary culture and Langland.
Reviews for The English Manuscripts of Richard Rolle
This will be an invaluable volume, obviously useful to those interested in its name author and his works, but also to all those engaged with later Middle English religious texts and their manuscript contexts.
Journal of the Early Book Society
Hanna’s descriptive catalogue is an invaluable source of information for those interested not only in Rolle’s English canon ... Read more
Journal of the Early Book Society
Hanna’s descriptive catalogue is an invaluable source of information for those interested not only in Rolle’s English canon ... Read more