Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
These 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 Contents
The speculum image in medieval mystical writers / R. Bradley -- "Singular lufe" / R. Allen -- Richard Rolle and the rhetorical theory of the levels of style / R. Copeland -- The manuscripts and early printed editions of Richard Rolle's Expositio super novem lectiones mortuorum / M. Moyes -- The Latin Cloud / J. Hogg -- An approach to the mystographical treatises of the Cloud-author through Carl Albrecht's "Psychology of mystical consciousness" / F. Wèohrer -- 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 / S. Dickman -- Mystics and followers in Siena and East Anglia / D. Wallace.